On 06 Mar 2006, at 11:37 AM, Rob Thorne wrote:
One of the best defenses of using Unix timestamps has to do with handling daylight savings time/ summer time.
complete aside and only mostly off topic : Am I the only person who thinks that timezones and especially daylight savings time are completely moronic inventions. It would just be so much simpler if everyone operated on GMT. I also wonder, that if one day when we end up living on other planets, are we going to insist on basing all our time keeping devices on the speed that some other celestial body spins on it's axis and orbits around some other celestial body. The entire idea of a decimal time system also appeals to me, and why i really liked the idea of swatch internet time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time But then again, when I was watching the animatrix and the robots named their first city '01' I was like "err. shouldn't that be 00" -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com