Time

[Keean Schupke]

Graham Klyne wrote:...

>
> I regard timezones (as opposed to timezone offsets from UTC) and leap 
> seconds as specialized issues that don't impact many of the common 
> uses for date/time.  A time library shouldn't preclude sensible 
> implementations of these, but I don't think it needs to include them all.
>
It will need proper timezone information. For example if it does not 
include the proper information for UK daylight savings time, my 
Personal-Video-Recorder box, written in
Haskell, will record the wrong programs in summer.

    Keean.