David Cantrell wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:02:38AM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
> > I would suggest that all dates be normalized to UTC (noon was mentioned
> > in another posting as an appropriate time) prior to calculation, then
> > restored to local time for output.
>
> Yes. You then get time differences as well as date differences for free.
I'd love for a module to be smart enough to know that if I gave it
"Monday, August 13, 2001 9:54:17 AM"
(assuming I am EDT) it would convert that to
"Monday, August 13, 2001 1:54:17 PM GMT"
internally, but if I gave it
"Monday, August 13, 2001"
it would store
"Monday, August 13, 2001 12:00:00 PM GMT"
with a flag that this was not an exact time for calculation purposes.
John
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