[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Scott Duff) wrote on 15.08.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You're right, there should be just one date/time routine. But it is > *extremely* difficult to incorporate time zones in a portable fashion. > They change at legislative whim. But if utcdate() (or whatever we > call it) had a way to specify an offset from UTC, that would be just > fine. There's a reason why the Olson timezone routines&data exist. Use them. Make the data easily updatable (actually, it would be hard to make it *not* easily updatable). Problem solved. MfG Kai
