UWS times

[Walter Landry]

Paul Harrison <paul.harrison at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> It is a fallacy to say that you need to be an historian, geographer
> or lawyer when programming at the application level - you simply
> have to trust the delta hour designation when reading a timestamp
> (to calculate UTC) or trust that the OS has been set into the
> correct timezone when producing a timestamp - it is really not that
> difficult.

Ok, I will agree to that.  But if that is the only way that offsets
can come into play, are they even that useful?

Cheers,
Walter Landry