[armedbear] #403: Normalize encode/decode-universal-time and DST to "time of the time" semantics

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#403: Normalize  encode/decode-universal-time and DST to "time of the time"
semantics
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 Reporter:  mevenson     |           Owner:
     Type:  defect       |          Status:  new
 Priority:  minor        |       Milestone:  1.4.0
Component:  interpreter  |         Version:
 Keywords:               |  Parent Tickets:
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 Scott Burson reports in
 <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.armedbear.devel/3537>
 {{{
 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.

 The usual interpretation is that when an explicit timezone is not supplied
 to these calls, DST is selected automatically based on whether it would
 have been in force (under certain assumptions, e.g., you're not in
 Arizona)
 at the time being converted.  ABCL's behavior is to convert the time based
 on whether DST is in force at the time of the call.

 I think it's pretty clear that the former interpretation was the intended
 one, even if the language of the spec is admittedly not as clear as it
 should have been.  SBCL does it that way, CCL does it that way, and I even
 dug out the Genera 7.2 sources, which I still have lying around, to
 confirm
 that it did it that way too.
 }}}

 Relevant code is in
 <http://abcl.org/trac/browser/trunk/abcl/src/org/armedbear/lisp/time.lisp>

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