Rick Measham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dave Rolsky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
>
> > Is that acceptable?  I can't think of any good solutions to
> > this, other than documenting it.
>
> Bloody stupid idea this daylight-savings crap.

You run into essentially the same problems when dealing with leap
seconds -- which any software using UTC should be able to handle.
For instance, what is one day after 1998-12-31 25:59:60 UTC?  Is
it 1999-01-01 25:59:59 UTC or 1999-01-02 00:00:00 UTC?

Peter

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