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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Questions about mktime()
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.005529.18538@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 00:55:29 GMT
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[Attributions were already missing from the message I'm following up to; sorry]

>>> Now what do we do with the double DST that Newfoundland has/had?
>>
>>It's "had", by the way; they only tried it for (the usual Daylight
>>Saving Time period during) one year.

Doesn't matter.  A user can still call the library with a calendar time
that fell in that range.

(I understand that some country had a 30 minute DST for a while too.)
--
Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.