Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:09:43AM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:39:39 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
>Did not.
>
>> > people in Newfoundland are going to expect to be
>> >> able to pass in -0230 and have that work, and that's interestingly hard.
>> 
>> What's so hard? Subtracting 2 hours and 30 minutes from the official
>> referential time (GMT)? Or the Daylight Savings Time rules?
>
>Without any further thought I'll just shoot and say the DST rules because
>they are legislation and fickle, not logic/astronomy and stable.

One of the most amusing of which is that at the UNIX epoch (Jan 1, 1970)
Greenwich (i.e. London) of GMT was not on GMT but BST which that year (or so)
stood for "British Standard Time" not "British Summer Time".

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Nick Ing-Simmons