Re: [MacPerl-Porters] MacPerl daylight saving time issue
[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Sat, 28 Sep 2002 18:30:05 +0300
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> Interestingly, according to: > > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntpfaq/NTP-s-trouble.htm#FTN.AEN4845 > > The Linux kernel has no idea about the effective timezone or daylight > saving time. I think in general UNIX-like kernels (thankfully) don't have any idea of timezones or DSTs, they simply operate in UTC. All complex stuff (like what should be done with a US user currently sitting in their UK office accessing a database in Japan using an application in Australia) is left to the upper layers to worry about. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen