Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Russ Allbery]

Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> By "local timezone" do you mean that some sort of inspection happens to
> determine the local timezone and the date() intrinsically knows about
> it?  What about daylight savings time?

This all should be handled by the operating system.  If you call localtime
in C, you should get back local time, whatever the local time zone.  The
whole point is to not try to duplicate that information in Perl core.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>