On 28/08/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
This is worth highlighting. Anyone writing code which has to handle summer time changes (or indeed anything timezone-related), and who implements this by re-coding the algorithms and having a private database of the various locale-specific rules, is making a Big Mistake. This is a hard problem that cries out to be solved in one central place, and in fact it has been for years now.
GMT for the win!
Rob Church