In
<capd5f5q2nw-nhit9llsjjlzyokg0av_q-whbywxv09nbwpp...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 10/17/2011
   at 09:01 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:

>I am puzzled by this distinction.  In general there is no way to
>convert a time value in a date-independent way;

There is a simple way; a raw time value refers to the current day. It
is not, of course, suitable for use in files that must be read on a
different day, but it is perfectly appropriate for use in human
interfaces. You know this.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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