what on earth is firefox up to?

[Ian Malone]

On 1 July 2012 15:20, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On that note, I've often wondered how systems that look at a file's GMT
> datestamp and tell you that time translated into your local time, cope
> with datestamps from a long way away, when timezone rules keep on
> changing.  We could maintain a table of rules so that the computer can
> correctly give you the times during summer of 1976, but how far back is
> the table maintained?  Sure, you won't have to read back a timestamp
> from the year 1827, but there could be a reason to calculate something
> from a known date and time, that's not to do with a computer file.  And
> there's the converse function.  If you had to calculate a date and time
> in 2023, would you know what rules would be applied during that year to
> do it correctly?

Of course it's not a particularly new problem, historians have had to
contend with missing (or extra) days and years for a long time.

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imalone
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