Re: Dates & international representation
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:04:54 -0700
Message-ID: <MPG.141619ae9b4f805c989687_at_colossus.usenet.com>
In article <8o6p34$lc9$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, 71062.1056_at_compuserve.com
says...
>
> You got it! The SQL-92 Standard has such a table in the Schema
> Information tables. All SQL is supposed to be in UTC and translated
> toocal time.
>
> This schema information table holds the time zone and daylight saving
> time (i.e. "Lawful time") and the system is supposed to convert it. We
> also use the leap second in the Standard.
>
> The general problem for the world is a mess. We had lawful time zones
> which were not a even number of hours off of UTC until two years ago.
>
>
Cool...thanks, Joe, for the information! -cf
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