I recall in particular that in the 1970's West Lafayette, Indiana in
Tippecanoe Co. kept a GMT offset of -0500 year round and transitioned at
the dates of change between EST (on Indianapolis time) and CDT (on
Chicago time), with no numeric change on the clocks.
Joel C. Ewing
On 06/27/2014 10:24 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
> Indiana you have to go by county. Several counties have unique DST
> time zone history.
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:46 PM, retired mainframer
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If it were only that easy. Parts of Texas are in two different time zones.
>> I believe at least one other state is split also. Some states in Australia
>> implement DST while others don't. Russia spans multiple time zones while
>> all of China is administered in one.
>>
>> :>: -----Original Message-----
>> :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> :>: Behalf Of Skip Robinson
>> :>: Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 3:37 PM
>> :>: To: [email protected]
>> :>: Subject: Re: Local Time conversion to/from UTC Time
>> :>:
>> :>: DST complicates your solution even further. While the whole of the U.S.
>> :>: switches (or not!!!) at the same moment, other countries switch on
>> :>: different dates. I think your solution will have to be table driven with
>> :>: an entry for every country and for every U.S. state.
>>
>
>
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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