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
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