In a recent note, Rob Scott said:
> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:09:23 -0400
>
> >Rather there should be a subroutine that takes as an argument any TOD
> clock value, past, present, or (with limitations) future and returns the
> corresponding local civil time.
>
> That would be very nice - but to cater for all countries in the world
>
Not just "all countries", but, as Shane noted, idiosyncratic regions
within those countries.
> and whatever strange resolutions are passed by the government of those
> countries for all TOD values from Jan 1st 1900 to now is a big ask.
>
Except that most of the work has already been done:
Linkname: Zoneinfo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoneinfo
Dinos need only to swallow their NIH pride and assimilate it.
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