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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | Re: calendar gets wrong end for Daylight Savings Time |
Date: | Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:46:51 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> I would assume that M-x calendar must use the database directly to >> find out _when_ DST starts and ends to print the calendar correctly. > > It can do that, but it doesn't have to: it could alternatively pass > the corresponding time_t value to the time routines and get the DST > flag back as the result. The Lisp primitives that return the current > time or time string should support that already. Am I totally missing the point here? The question to be answered is: what day of the year does Daylight Saving Time start/end? This is so it can be printed as a diary/holiday entry, eg so people know when to change their clocks. How do I do find that date in your method?
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