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in reply to Determining Daylight Savings Time

The first question that springs to mind is why do you need to know if the time zone you're in is daylight savings or not?

If the goal is to have two different systems in different timezones have a normalized time, why not use gmtime() instead of localtime()? it gives you the same value regardless of the local...

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