Re: [Chicken-users] Timezone bugs in the posix module

2013-10-03 Thread Jim Ursetto
Posix is pretty much useless for handling timezones correctly; behavior varies greatly based on the OS, and I am fairly sure the direction of the wind plays a part as well. Jim On Sep 29, 2013, at 12:28, Andy Bennett andy...@ashurst.eu.org wrote: Hi, There seem to be some

Re: [Chicken-users] Timezone bugs in the posix module

2013-10-03 Thread John Cowan
Jim Ursetto scripsit: Posix is pretty much useless for handling timezones correctly; behavior varies greatly based on the OS, and I am fairly sure the direction of the wind plays a part as well. Actually, there are only two systems in live use, IANA (formerly Olson) and Windows (excluding