On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:09:43AM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:39:39 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

Did not.

> > people in Newfoundland are going to expect to be
> >> able to pass in -0230 and have that work, and that's interestingly hard.
> 
> What's so hard? Subtracting 2 hours and 30 minutes from the official
> referential time (GMT)? Or the Daylight Savings Time rules?

Without any further thought I'll just shoot and say the DST rules because
they are legislation and fickle, not logic/astronomy and stable.

> -- 
>       Bart.

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