On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:57:28 -0600, Tony Wiggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in most parts of Australia starts last Sunday in October and ends last > Sunday of March we surely need to specify this.... but how? How do we > specify last Sunday in October when October can have 4 or 5 Sundays ???? > I believe "5" means "last".
> Does anyone even bother setting this parm up or care about daylight saving > in USS? > Yes. And you, like the USA come 2007, will be in the position of having different start/end dates in recent years, so representation of historical timestamps (such as last years files) will be incorrect. I'm about to translate my dissatisfaction with IBM's inaction on this point to a PMR for a Requirement to implement the zoneinfo data base (for which Google). Yah, I know it's not a POSIX requirement, just a valuable extension. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
