In a recent note, Rob Scott said: > Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:09:23 -0400 > > >Rather there should be a subroutine that takes as an argument any TOD > clock value, past, present, or (with limitations) future and returns the > corresponding local civil time. > > That would be very nice - but to cater for all countries in the world > Not just "all countries", but, as Shane noted, idiosyncratic regions within those countries.
> and whatever strange resolutions are passed by the government of those > countries for all TOD values from Jan 1st 1900 to now is a big ask. > Except that most of the work has already been done: Linkname: Zoneinfo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoneinfo Dinos need only to swallow their NIH pride and assimilate it. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html