Andreas Schwab wrote:
> This will fail during the day after a DST transition.

Which points out a terrible bug in my suggestion of how to map the
range of 0-(N-1) to the range of 1-N!

Bob wrote this buggy code:
>>  case $secondssincedaystart in (0) secondssincedaystart=86400 ;; esac

That will obviously fail miserably at midnight on the day after a dst
change.  Another reason not to do it!

Bob


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