Re: [LEAPSECS] A lurker surfaces

From: John Cowan <cowan_at_ccil.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:47:17 -0500

Tony Finch scripsit:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > However, it's clear that UTC does not contain the sort of jumps
> > that LCT does, where a single broken-down time may represent
> > two different UTC seconds.
>
> Not if you include the timezone offset in the representation.

Quite so. Or alternatively a standard/daylight flag. The point is,
people usually don't.

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Received on Sun Dec 31 2006 - 11:18:24 PST