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> Now, if I choose a constant UTC time
> carefully, I may find there's one, which when
> converted into any timezone will not involve
> any kind of complicated calculalations, (e.g.
> no leap years, no crossing month boundaries,
> no crossing year boundaries, etc.)
> ...
> So the number of seconds difference betwen
> localtime and UTC can be calculated
> without knowing what a time_t is by looking
> at the differences between these to struct tm's
> for this specially chosen date. (this
> automatically handles daylight savings
> time too.)
The problem, as I see it, is that this assumes that the time
difference in seconds is going to be the same at all times.
It won't be.
