Re: Time confusion?

[Paul Kienzle]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Vic Norton wrote:

> Start with the date 23-Feb-04. That was a Monday. Do strptime to get a 
> TM_STRUCT and then do strftime to that. This changes the day. Now 
> 23-Feb-04 is Sunday.
>
> Something is very strange here. One date just can't be on two 
> different days!

It can if it is in a different time zone.  E.g., start at 12:00AM on 
Monday, no time
zone specified.  Set zone to EST.   If your time zone is CST, 12:00AM 
on Monday
in EST is really 11:00PM on Monday in CST.

print out the full date and time, including time zone, on tm_struct1 
and tm_struct2.

        strftime ("%r (%Z) %A %e %B %Y",tm)

Paul Kienzle
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