[time-nuts] Re: UTC - A Cautionary Tale
Mike S
mikes at flatsurface.com
Wed Jul 20 07:12:22 EDT 2005
At 06:38 AM 7/20/2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote...
>Experience with daylight savings time and timezones indicate that
>it can be two hours off and people still survive.
That's a red herring.
DST isn't applied to UTC.
DST and timezones offset time by a fixed, well defined amounts. As long as a time properly labeled, the same information exists as if UTC were used.
I suppose you believe that DST makes the day longer, too.
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