Re: [ProgSoc] General timezone (Java Question: Timezone)

[Telford Tendys <telford@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

> wether Java supports that is another matter... :| time just makes much
> more sense under UNIX.

Oh yeah, try ftoomsh with:

	date --date="`date`"

and you will see how much sense it makes, it can't read back the
same date that it just printed out! I haven't tried this on Solaris
but probably the same bug is there if you use GNU date and some similar
bug if you use Solaris date.

	- Tel

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