Encode/decode-universal-time and DST

[Mark Evenson]

On 11/2/15 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.
[…]
> 
>> If _time-zone_ is supplied, no adjustment for daylight savings time is performed.
> 
> -- With no statement of what happens when the time zone _isn't_ supplied.
> 
> That's why I was at pains to show that the "time of the time"
> interpretation is the de facto standard -- and has been, all the way
> back to Zetalisp, at least.
> 
>> 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 :-)
> 
[…]

> Anyone interested in this area should also be aware of the
> "local-time" package [0].  I'm not using it, but maybe I should be :-)
> 
> [0] https://common-lisp.net/project/local-time/
> 
> -- Scott
> 

Any argument about just using local-time from ABCL?  Setting the special
*use-political-time* seems to be all that is needed.  I would throw
local-time into ABCL-CONTRIB if the licensing can be shown to be compatible.

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