Dear Dennis and my Fellowmen, How would you like to evaluate a new simplified time zone system for the world and in decimal? This is found in http://www.geocities.com/peacecrusader888/timezone.htm.
Best regards, Aristeo Canlas Fernando, Peace Crusader, ICD Motto: pro aris et focis http://www,geocities.com/peacecrusader888/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Bjorklund) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I found a nice page about daylight saving time that I want to share: > > http://timeanddate.com/time/aboutdst.html > > Here are some fun quotes from the page: > > "Sometimes DST is used for longer periods than just one summer, as in the > United States during World War II. From 3 Feb 1942 to 30 Sep 1945 most of > United States had DST all year, it was called "War Time"." > > "many countries change the transition days/principles every year because > of special happenings or conditions that has happened or will happen." > > Also notice the current list of DST changes for this fall 2004: > > http://timeanddate.com/time/dst2004b.html > > I can understand why they did not try to formalize that in the sql spec. > > ps. This letter does not mean that I think it's bad to handle time zone > names, just that it's even more difficult then I first thought. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
