Nov. 3, 1998
4:09 p.m.
Nathan Myers writes:
I believe that conversions should yield a struct containing a reference timestamp, followed by up to four offsets tagged with official wall-clock offset, interpretation, and confidence values.
How exactly do you expect programs to use this information? I can imagine a warning such as ``The time is jumping from 2:00 CDT back to 1:00 CST; I assume you meant 1:30 CDT; if you actually wanted 1:30 CST, type 1:30 CST.'' But this doesn't use your vague ``confidence values''; it uses hard data about the time zone. ---Dan 1000 recipients, 28.8 modem, 10 seconds. http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/mini.html