Larry Jones wrote a brilliant analysis of my flawed algorithm.;
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> No, I mean that the mapping between UTC and local time is very
> complicated [...] What you
> want is to have the results switch back and forth between standard time
> and DST as appropriate.
[smc] oh yeah, hadn't thought of that. yuck.
> So, I think the conversion has to be done on the client side, since
> that's the only place that has sufficient information to do the
> conversion correctly.
[smc] Yes, agreed. Again, yuck, (parsing the log output).
No wonder nobody has solved this correctly.