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Re: [Nmh-workers] date math


From: Ken Hornstein
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] date math
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:46:46 -0500

>> In the EST/CDT division, existing routines already "know" if a
>> particular date falls under DST so there is no ambiguity there.  But
>> like you said, it's hard to know if the sender is in the "wrong"
>> hemisphere :-)
>
>Do they get Saskatchewan right?  (I haven't looked at the code.  I don't
>want to.)

I was thinking about mktime() and friends ... but now that I think about
it, I realize that's simply not good enough (first off, we don't call it).
A GMT offset != a timezone.  Of course, everyone else already knew that :-/

--Ken



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