From: "REH" <spamjunk@stny.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Advice on Calendar.Time
Date: 8 Nov 2005 12:05:45 -0800
Date: 2005-11-08T12:05:45-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131480345.878386.71750@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dkquap$7e8$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>
Martin Dowie wrote:
> This can let you get from your timezone to UTC but I think the important
> thing to realize is that dealing with time turns out to be _very_
> OS-dependent - even with a standardized API. :-(
>
When dealing with timer resolutions, frequencies, and precisions, sure,
I agree. But I don't think there is anything that is, or should be,
OS-dependent with dates and time-of-day, or timezones, or GMT, or UTC,
or DST, or leap seconds, etc. These concepts are well defined and do
not change from platform to platform.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 16:04 Advice on Calendar.Time REH
2005-11-08 17:09 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-08 17:30 ` REH
2005-11-08 17:59 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2005-11-08 18:38 ` REH
2005-11-08 19:29 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-08 20:05 ` REH [this message]
2005-11-08 22:00 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-08 23:02 ` REH
2005-11-08 22:09 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2005-11-08 22:13 ` REH
2005-11-09 5:23 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2005-11-09 7:00 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-09 3:16 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-09 1:36 ` Keith Thompson
2005-11-13 14:15 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-11-13 21:37 ` Keith Thompson
2005-11-09 0:23 ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-09 8:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-09 19:37 ` brian.b.mcguinness
2005-11-09 21:45 ` brian.b.mcguinness
2005-12-01 0:24 ` Randy Brukardt
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