An all to real point that I had overlooked inadvertently. I think adding a 
timezone parameter would be a fine change to the API. I'll look at it this 
evening, I've been meaning t

Chris Heller 
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On Nov 6, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 17:25, Heller Time <[email protected]> wrote:
> I rationalized the use of unsafePerformIO in the library by deciding that it 
> was only being used in the case of a LocalTime instance (a user could always 
> stick to UTCTime and avoid the issues) and that unless the machine running 
> the program using time-recurrence was traveling across timezones (and the 
> system was updating that fact) the program would essentially be referentially 
> transparent :)
> 
> There's also late-night hackers doing stuff when DST changes (as it did in 
> the US last night and Europe a week ago).
> 
> -- 
> brandon s allbery                                      [email protected]
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> 

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