Years ago I was given the problem of writing a program to determine date and time for Great Briton applications running in a mainframe in the US Central Time Zone. The problem should have been simple as the IBM mainframes internally ran on GMT. The problem I ran into was determining when Great Briton's Summer Time started and ended. At that time Parliament only set the dates a year in advance. Every year I had to find out when the switch was to take place for the following year and update my program for the next year. Has Great Briton changed that policy to a method which is perpetual?
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > J's 'dates' code could use some additional support for times. > > For example: > > NB. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Date_Manipulation > require 'dates' > getdate 'March 7 2009 7:30pm EST' > > getdate 'March 7 2009 7:30pm' > > getdate 'March 7 2009' > 2009 3 7 > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
