<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>An all to real point that I had overlooked inadvertently. I think adding a timezone parameter would be a fine change to the API. I'll look at it this evening, I've been meaning t</div><div><br>Chris Heller <div>SAS - Advanced Analytics<br><div>Teragram Research & Development</div><div>phone: 1-617-576-6800 x54237</div><div>mobile: 1-617-460-3643</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:heller@teragram.com"></a><a href="mailto:heller@teragram.com"><a href="mailto:heller@teragram.com">heller@teragram.com</a></a></div></div></div><div><br>On Nov 6, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 17:25, Heller Time <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hellertime@gmail.com"></a><a href="mailto:hellertime@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:hellertime@gmail.com">hellertime@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I rationalized the use of unsafePerformIO in the library by deciding that it was only being used in the case of a LocalTime instance (a user could always stick to UTCTime and avoid the issues) and that unless the machine running the program using time-recurrence was traveling across timezones (and the system was updating that fact) the program would essentially be referentially transparent :)<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>There's also late-night hackers doing stuff when DST changes (as it did in the US last night and Europe a week ago).</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a></a><br>
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