Mark Davis wrote: > Using the name "Pacific Time" for both a fixed time and one that > observes daylight savings will clearly cause confusion among people > all over the US and Canada (and beyond).
And the best way to cause even greater confusion is for the new name “Pacific Time” to refer to UTC-7. > if the tm_isdst flag is flipped, people will see "Pacific Daylight > Time". I wonder if that is exactly what some folks want, particularly those who are selling this as “permanent daylight saving time” instead of permanent standard time with a different UTC offset, which is what it really is. -- Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org
