On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 14:16 +0200, a. wrote: > Ticks are easy in .NEt, but I'm much more concerned about the > "meaning" of that specific time. > > If my server runs DST but one of the clients is on CET, and the > client sends 2007-07-12 12:00 AM, what does it mean? 12:00 in DST or > CET? > > We either should declare that absolute expiration should treated as > UTC, or get rid of it and use relative expirations. >
Yes, either of these makes me more happy than the current situation. I generally don't like absolute times unless absolutely required, though. Relative time is robust to all sorts of things for free like massively mismatched clocks and, as mentioned, time zones. df
