Re: [VOTE] DateTime and Daylight Saving Time Transitions

From: Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:00:05 +0000
Subject: Re: [VOTE] DateTime and Daylight Saving Time Transitions
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Hi Stas: > That's what I don't understand - so in the real code, what would be > the use case where I'd want to use ST/DST? I.e., if I know the exact > time, I could just use the timestamp or GMT time which doesn't have > transitions. Yeah, this stuff is very edge case. It is for use when one needs to have the transition information and create a time zone object that's in the repeated period during a backward transition. One case it's needed is in unit testing DateTime. Thanks, --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409

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