On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Adam Vartanian <flo...@google.com> wrote: > Yes. The no-argument toDateTime() method uses the default time zone, > which usually is a timezone that uses daylight saving time. Any > timezone that uses daylight saving time has some date/time > combinations that simply do not exist: they're during the period of > time that daylight saving time omits. For instance, in the US Eastern > timezone, March 14, 2010, 02:33:54 is a time that does not exist; in > that timezone, local time skipped directly from March 14, 2010, > 01:59:59 to March 14, 2010, 03:00:00. If you try to convert a > LocalDateTime with that date/time combination to a DateTime in US > Eastern, it throws an exception because there's no such thing. > > UTC doesn't have daylight saving time, so it doesn't run into that problem.
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