Ok thanks Jacob and Jeffrey... I'm looking forward to both of your efforts!
On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 12:49:45 PM UTC-4, Jacob Quinn wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Tom Breloff <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> as > > > Tom, > > Yes, the method I proposed won't work retroactively since the method for > getting the current local offset from GMT is `now() - now(Dates.UTC)`. If > you were to run that every second crossing over the daylight savings > moment, you'd see that it correctly adjusts for daylight savings, but it's > only going to give you the *current* offset from GMT. Something more > elaborate will require tapping into the tzinfo database (which TimeZones.jl > will do). > > -Jacob >
