Re: os.time() vs. isdst

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure, but it looks to me that, in order to ensure correct
> behavior of gmtime(), os.date() must set tm_isdst to -1 unless user
> explicitly specified a value. (And not doing so is probably a bug
> worth fixing in 5.1.5.) Maybe someone would shed a light on this?

Sounds right to me.

The standard C time library is pretty crappy.

Tony.
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