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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times
Message-ID: <3171@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 23 Feb 89 14:07:07 GMT
References: <2884@mhres.mh.nl> <5930003@eecs.nwu.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <5930003@eecs.nwu.edu>, gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
> I don't understand...  If you store your local time and timezone, you know
> the timezone, right?  How is storing (local_time, time_zone) different from
> storing (local_time - time_zone)?  And the latter equals GMT.

Because if you don't know the timezone you can store a token that indicates
you don't know the timezone and the time is a local time.
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