Concerning Time.TimeDiff

Dylan Thurston dpt@math.harvard.edu
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:36:23 +0200


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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:20:39PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
>    - Timezone offsets are in minutes (apparently this is necessary -=20
>      if someone could provide a reference I'd be grateful).  It's
>      just occurred to me that since TAI is a valid timezone name,=20
>      it isn't always sensible to ask what the "timezone offset" is.

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/abbreviations.html lists several
timezones with half-hour offsets (e.g., Newfoundland).

Should there also be a function to get offsets (in seconds) between
UTC and TAI?

Peace,
	Dylan

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