On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:44:46 -0500, John Gilmore <johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Sanely organized networks, even those that do not span multiple time >zones, collect and store only UTC [GMT] STCKE values. True. >It is then of >course possible to write trivial routines that, given a UTC offset, But I think that is the main pain point: the UTC offset has to be *given* for the rest of your sentence to be true. >The table involved is short; it is ordered; it can be searched using >very efficient glb-seeking binary search; this table grows very >slowly; elements can be added to it before their effective dates; >ample advance notice of requirements to add new elements and their >effective dates (always one of two) is provided; etc., etc. All true. And all too bad IBM did not implement such table into their C library functions. Cheers, Jantje. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
