Re: Testing for daylight savings on a GMT server

From: Jordan Abel (jmabel_at_purdue.edu)
Date: 11/01/05


Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:41:26 +0000 (UTC)

On 2005-10-31, snoopy_@excite.com <snoopy_@excite.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a server that is set to GMT and it needs to interact with
> other servers that are not and the other servers also observe daylight
> savings time adjustments.

Use gmtime() for everything, or, better, just use the unix timestamp
[which is specified with respect to UTC]. Timezones are hairy and
dst is worse.



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