Kagamin wrote: <snip>
Even windows doesn't have this kind of heuristics. The only solution is to keep all timestamps in UTC and leave local time representation only for user eyes and don't care about its precision.
That's the best thing indeed for timestamps and the like. For some other kinds of applications, different methodologies'll be needed.
See also http://www.codeproject.com/KB/datetime/dstbugs.aspx
The bugs pertaining to that page are probably as bad as the bug it tries to describe.
But I wonder: Is there any sensible way that M$ could eventually paint itself out of this corner?
Stewart.
