Subj : Re: Daylight saving time problem (maybe)
To   : Rod Whiteley
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon Sep 13 2004 06:04 pm

Rod Whiteley wrote:

> If I set my machine for New York time it is around 8:45 a.m. EDT (still 
> 12:45 UTC, of course).  JavaScript returns 7 12, where the 7 is wrong, 
> and Java returns 8.
> 
> Am I right in thinking that these numbers are wrong?  Is there some 
> setting that I can tweak to fix things?


Sounds like a bug in SpiderMonkey's date/time code for Win98, or perhaps 
we are using a POSIX API that's buggy on Win98 (the date/time code has 
#ifdefs mostly for the Mac).

There might be a bug on file about this already -- have you checked 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ by querying for all open JavaScript Engine 
bugs in the Browser product?

/be

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