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 -- #!/local/bin/perl5 -wp -*- mode: cperl; coding: iso-8859-1; -*- # matlab comment stripper (strips comments from Matlab m-files) s/^((?:(?:[])}\w.]'+|[^'%])+|'[^'\n]*(?:''[^'\n]*)*')*).*/$1/x;