On May 21, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > Whenever you have a UTC timestamp that you want to transform into a > local timestamp. Timestamps usually are in the past... :) > > There are a number of good reasons why you may want to know the exact > (local) time when something happened in the past. I'm not convinced. you KNOW the exact time in the past when it =20 happened (the timestamp.) When do you care what that time was called? BillW --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .