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Re: Ambiguous DATE-TIME values when clocks go back



On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Mark Tearle wrote:

> Another spurious question, is Daylight savings consistently the same
> amount of time around the world? (ie forward one hour in summer)

nope, it's only 30 minutes in at least one place. (Lord Howe Island,
Australia)

here's a list of daylight saving time transitions during the first half of
2001:

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2001a.html



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 Tim Buchheim        tim@xxxxxxxxxx
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