Beginner questions

[Ruby Ballen]

It makes sense. Thanks. So if I set it to October 31, 00:59:00  and wait for an hour I should see
the transition, right?

Thanks a lot.





                                                                                                                                       
                      bww at acm.org                                                                                                      
                                               To:       RBallen at hypercom.com                                                          
                      05/26/04 08:21 AM        cc:                                                                                     
                                               Subject:  Re: Beginner questions                                                        
                                                                                                                                       




> Then, I set my local time to October 31, 1:59 and I double checked
> that localtime() was in fact giving me 1:59.  Two minutes later I was
> expecting the wall clock to go back one hour. It didn't. What am I doing
> wrong?

There are two 01:59's on that day ... you set the time to the second,
after which there is no transition.