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Re: [PLUG] Daylight Savings Time
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Ops. yes I forgot to mention that I got the current 2007c
file 'tzdata2007c.tar.gz' and not the one mentioned.
Doug
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > I went to http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm and downloaded
> > tzdata2006p.tar.gz. I un-tared this file into a temp directory and
> > executed
>
> is actually the wrong time zone data. Not for the US (the Act of
> Congress--note, not "law"--changing the date for the start/end of
> US DST was passed in 2005, so the 2006p version is nationally safe),
> but for some parts of the world. The corner cases in which this
> matters are absurd (someone in a locale whose DST date changed in
> that time frame passes you dates in seconds-since-epoch format and
> you interpret them locally, but explicitly in their locale, and
> the timespan includes a DST period), but they may exist (you're
> dealing with someone in such a locale, discussing SMTP transmissions,
> and they use qmail).
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
>
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