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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie Q: How to program in UTC (time/calendar) ?
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:59:11 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 24, 6:53=A0pm, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinri...@online.de> wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> > These sort of things make sensible time computations hard, e.g. what
> > does "1:30am" mean if the clocks have gone back an hour for winter at
> > 2am? Is it the first 1:30am or the second that night?
>
> I'd say that depends on the OS you run your program on (and its
> configuration).

Exactly - and the times in the original question may not even have
come from the computer doing the calculations - they could be a log
from e.g. a Sat Nav - what would it be doing?

Cheers
-- Martin