Re: RFC 48 (v2) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Kai Henningsen]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Scott Duff)  wrote on 15.08.00 in 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> You're right, there should be just one date/time routine.  But it is
> *extremely* difficult to incorporate time zones in a portable fashion.
> They change at legislative whim.  But if utcdate() (or whatever we
> call it) had a way to specify an offset from UTC, that would be just
> fine.

There's a reason why the Olson timezone routines&data exist.

Use them. Make the data easily updatable (actually, it would be hard to  
make it *not* easily updatable).

Problem solved.

MfG Kai