On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 05:53 AM, Michael D Mays wrote:
> When it is 12 midnight in Edinburgh (GMT) it is 6:00 PM the day > before here > in Dallas (CST) (no daylight savings time). I haven't been reading my mail well, Michael. When I read Ian's mail the first time I thought he was complaining that he didn't get the offset. When I read your's I thought you said he shouldn't. My cryptic one line response was not up to the job and your description did well. > IMO, date and time formats should only be used to display dates > and times. > Aside from formatting issues, as illustrated here time and date > formats have > 'hidden parameters' such as where (time zone) and when (daylight > savings > time) associated with them. Daylight savings time seems to be applied in an interesting manner. It seems it is applied if the time is in daylight savings time at the moment of calculation rather than the time/date being converted, even for the current year. To do otherwise might be very hard, especially for future years, when the rules might have changed even again. It would be nice if these hidden parameters could optionally be supplied. How does one get the time zone and daylight savings settings? Dar Scott _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
