On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:35, Marcus Grando wrote: > Hi, > > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > To be pedantic, FreeBSD 4.11 is correct and the others are wrong. If > > ^^^^^^ > Also FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE? > > > DST started at 2004-11-02 00:00 local time then you can't convert a local > > time of 2004-11-02 00:00:00 because that time doesn't exist - your local > > time goes 2004-11-01 23:59:59, 2004-11-02 01:00:00, 2004-11-02 01:00:01. > > I know, but timestamp return is better of that -1.
Not really.. You asked it to do an illegal operation. There are 2 choices - 1) return and error, 2) have the computer try and guess what you really meant. 2 leads to all sorts of bad things like other programs working around it to get proper functionality etc.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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