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
