Encode/decode-universal-time and DST

Mark Evenson evenson at panix.com
Tue Nov 3 10:01:00 UTC 2015



On 2015/11/2 19:26, Scott L. Burson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2015/11/2 04:39, Scott L. Burson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As daylight-saving time ended in the US today, I discovered that ABCL's
>>> interpretation of the CL spec concerning the behavior of
>>> 'encode/decode-universal-time' around DST is not the usual one.

[…]

>> In general, we developers (if I may be said to speak for the group) tend
>> to go the way of the majority of active, open source implementations in
>> the idea that we should provide the "least surprise" to our users.
> 
> That would certainly be my recommendation :-)

[…]

Filed as ticket [403][] to track implementation.

[403]: http://abcl.org/trac/ticket/403

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