"Olson, Arthur David \(NIH/NCI\) [E]" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:
I am trying to use the Time zone converter and got an error for US cities.
The error is:
When I try to convert the New_York time from:
30-Apr-1972 02:10:30
I'm not sure what the "Time zone converter" is, but that is not a valid time stamp for New York (as the clocks jumped from 02:00 to 03:00 on that day), so I suppose the "Time zone converter" is indicating the error by reporting "31-Dec-1969 23:59:59" GMT, which corresponds to a time_t value of -1, the standard value for indicating errors. This doesn't appear to be a bug in the tz data itself; it sounds more like the "Time zone converter" isn't reporting failed conversions well. I don't observe this issue with <http://timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc>; instead, it silently pretends that you wrote 03:10:30 instead of 02:10:30 and goes on from there.