Replacing parsedate
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Tue Jun 8 19:05:22 UTC 2004
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
> 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.
Yeah. But the new treatment is more consistent. Does anyone else want to
weigh in on what they'd prefer here? It's relatively easy to do either.
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