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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.