On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:24:32PM +0000, Tamsin wrote: > So basically I'm doing this to stop an extremely helpful Belgian mailing > me with links to windows .exe files that tell you time zones for places...
You could procmail him to the bit-bucket ... > What I suspect I'm going to do is make a a Perl script that runs 1/2 hourly > or > hourly and gets the offsets for all the times zones I use. It'll > then write those > out to a MySQL table with the offset in either hours or seconds ... I strongly recommend using seconds. You'll have to convert to seconds anyway if you want your calculations involving dates and times to be sane. -- David Cantrell | Reprobate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists
