Re: RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 11:07:02AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Basically, you don't want to go anywhere near this mess; it eats people.

I agree.

> I see two reasonable options to go with instead.  One is to just use a
> binary flag that says use UTC or not; this is the simplest and most
> reliable to explain.  The other is to allow a timezone offset; this
> doesn't deal with daylight savings time and historic time zone changes,
> but it provides enough power for most of what people want to do and if you
> want to deal with the rest you have to deal with time zone naming.

This makes an incredible amount of sense.  We could even let the user
specify a coderef to a sub that implements their own particular
timezone oddities. (i.e. a sub to tell date() what the TZ offset is)

-Scott
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