On 5 Jan 2010, at 20:33, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > >> Firstly, you can't *in general* normalize to a specific time, because you >> can't in general know that the time exists on every date. > > Unless you use a specific time zone, and store that time zone information > elsewhere in the model. And if you use GMT, as I mentioned earlier, unless > some cosmic event happens that disturbs the flow of time, there is no such > thing as a GMT time that does not exist, since GMT ignores transforms like > daylight savings.
Not really. We use GMT (Greenwich, the "G" in GMT, is in North London) here in the UK and we do have daylight savings. GMT without daylight savings or any other features are commonly referred to as UTC nowadays. Robert
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