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Article #2356Re: Questions about mktime()
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 1991 18:57
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 1991 18:57
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>[So, what should mktime() return in the neighborhood of DST changeover, >when the argument represents a clock time which is (depending on season) >impossible or ambiguous?] Personally, I think we should've handled DST in the same way as leap days and leap seconds: just add another hour to the legal range of the variable. Then Spring Changeover Day would end at 23:00, and Fall Changeover Day would end at 25:00. It is left as an exercise to the reader to determine how 24:30 is denoted in those backward countries that use 12-hour clocks, such as the United States. Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
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