RE: [security-services] Following up on dateTime

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Hal Lockhart <>
Date
2002-02-07T17:02:57+00:00
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RE: [security-services] Following up on dateTime
Title: RE: [security-services] Following up on dateTime

 

> I don't think it allows DST, does it? You have to specify an 

> offset, not

> a time zone symbol. Your local offset might change across the 

> boundary,

> but that's handled by the time library that generates the offset I

> assume, and the stamp on an earlier assertion is computed to GMT for

> comparison based on the offset at that time.

If it is always a positive or negative offset from UTC I guess that is ok, but I wonder how many libraries will correctly handle offsets that are not an interger multiple of 1 hour.

Hal