RE: [PATCH] SMPP validity

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Fink [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: Vibhu Mohindra [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> >>  > Why would I want to handle years and days when I only 
> need the hour
> >>  > difference ?
> >>
> >>  OK, here's why looking only at hours and minutes isn't
> >>  enough. A country
> >>  which is +12 GMT will be identified at 11am as being -12 GMT.
> >>  Past noon
> >>  it will be correctly identified as +12 GMT. Our 
> normalising version
> >>  which adds/subtracts 24 hours doesn't work for such a place.
> >
> >Ahmm... GMT+12 and GMT-12 is the same timezone. it's just a matter of
> >how you look at it. both are valid. it's like saying GMT+0 
> and GMT-0 are
> >different time zones.
> 
> This is WRONG!
> Someone living in GMT+12 has a different date from the person in 
> GMT-12 even they share the same time.

Ok. then get the timezone from the locale using localtime() and the global variable timezone.

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