in reply to Re^2: Date Manipulation
in thread Date Manipulation

I'm lazy. In Perl, I use one of the date modules. In Fortran -- where I did implement something like this -- DST adds another layer of horror that I contemplated and decided to ignore; nobody where I work is likely to be working between 6pm and 7am, so DST wasn't an issue. My general opinion of DST is f*** it, in any case.

emc

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