Re: Time-Zone juggling

At 12:48 AM -0500 11/8/06, Travis Doherty wrote:

This can be a big problem to some apps, and others might be fine with the workaround like we've done where you loose a tiny bit of data (It's 08:00 on the day after the timechange, is this ticket from 01:30:00 6.5 or 7.5 hours old? who cares.. just reply.)

and At 9:53 PM -0600 11/7/06, Richard Lynch wrote:

This time zone stuff always gets me head all spun around, I admit freely.

You're not alone. What about just using what we did in the service, namely Zulu? http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/MAEL/ag/zulu.htm At least that points to a common datum for all time related issues. I just wonder how they came up with the acronym of "UTC" for Coordinated Universal Time? Best, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com