Thank you for the correction. That is very interesting. I have a great deal of trouble with spelling.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Matthew Brand <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Don, > > Just a small point but it is "Great Britain". > > The phrase "Great Briton" these days has come to mean something like, > "a person from Britain who happens to also be Great". I.e. the Great > Britons come from Great Britain. > > The actual Britons though are those who used to reside in roughly the > same region as we now call England rather than the larger area of > Britain. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britons_(historical) > > > 2009/8/31 Don Guinn <[email protected]>: > > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
