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N. Raghavendra raghu at mri.ernet.in
Sun Feb 19 14:29:58 UTC 2006


At 2006-02-19T19:24:45+07:00, Robert Elz wrote:

> The only complication is if you're trying to handle times into the
> far future - when all anyone can do is guess at what the rules will
> be.  If you want to accept the timezone's project's guesses (which
> really just assume that the current rules will not change - which
> means that they are almost certainly wrong) then you need to
> extrapolate from the data at the end of the file.  That is where
> knowing what the rules actually say is useful (and where you might
> hare about the standard vs wall-clock vs UTC indications).

Thank you very much for the advice.  I will keep that in mind.

Raghavendra.

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