System.Time.Clock Design Issues

[Glynn Clements]

Simon Marlow wrote:

> The time zone issue is a red herring.  You can use UTC calendar time
> exclusively if you want.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that, but you need local
calendar times for date arithmetic, e.g. "one month from now":

	$ export TZ=Asia/Tokyo
	$ date -d '2005-02-28 23:00 UTC'
	Tue Mar  1 08:00:00 JST 2005
	$ date -d '2005-03-01 08:00 JST'
	Tue Mar  1 08:00:00 JST 2005
	$ date -d '2005-02-28 23:00 UTC +1month'
	Tue Mar 29 08:00:00 JST 2005
	$ date -d '2005-03-01 08:00 JST +1month'
	Fri Apr  1 08:00:00 JST 2005

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>