On 04 February 2005 11:00, Glynn Clements wrote:

Simon Marlow wrote:

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The time zone issue is a red herring. You can use UTC calendar time exclusively if you want.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that, but you need local calendar times for date arithmetic, e.g. "one month from now":

Yes of course. That comment was in reply to Ashley's comparison of POSIX time and calendar time, where he said that "calendar time ... may be dependent on timezone". I was just pointing out that the fact that calendar time includes the timezone is not a limitation. Cheers, Simon