Replacing parsedate

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Jun 8 15:07:49 UTC 2004


Russ Allbery wrote:

>  * When a date does not have a time zone, parsedate interprets that date
>    as being in the local time zone, except that it has buggy handling of
>    daylight savings time and sometimes adjusts for it twice, sometimes
>    getting the date wrong by an hour.  The new code will treat all dates
>    without a time zone as being GMT.

Not adjusting twice is good, changing the basic assumption may produce 
unexpected and user-visible behaviour.

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    -bill davidsen (davidsen at tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
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