Fowler, Gary <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> I had a quick look at this code and noticed a possible problem with
> the daylight saving routine. (I haven't used a Stamp before so I may
> be missing something obvious). According to the code when changing
> back from daylight saving time wouldn't it get stuck in a loop
> changing to 1am at 2am and then repeating this 1 hour later (i.e at
> 2am again)?

    Didn't Microsoft make this exact mistake in one of their NT or
    Win95 betas?

> Of course for everyone living in the best part of the world
> (Southern hemisphere :-)) the daylight saving start and finish
> dates would need to be reversed.

    It's worse than you think, Gary... Scores of countries switch
    to/from Daylight Savings time (or "summer time") on completely
    different dates (and at different times of the day) than we do.

    -Andy

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