>> 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
> happened (the timestamp.)  When do you care what that time was called?
>
> BillW

Whenever presenting the information back to the user, who will be thinking=
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-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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