On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
This suggests that the proper solution is not to have two methods, one
for local subtraction and one for utc subtraction; but to do
calculations with hours/mins/seconds in utc, and days/months/years in
local time.
No, it used to do that, but that caused complaints too ;)
Trust me, if you go through enough different cases, you will find that no
matter you do, some people will be surprised by the results for some of
the cases. The problem is that people think there's an intuitive answer,
but there isn't.
I think the fix is to pick one way that works "good enough" as the
default, and document the whole thing really well so that people who need
a different answer know how to get it.
-dave
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