[LA.pm] OT: changing the date timezone for perl use

[Peter Scott]

At 10:50 AM 6/23/2005, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> > Um, since eastern time is always 3 hours ahead of pacific
>
>that's not entirely true - daylight savings starts/ends at 2am local time on
>the days that it switches, so 1:59am EST magically becomes 3am EDT while it
>went from 10:59pm to 11:00pm PST, thus leaving a 4 hour difference for the
>next 3 hours.
>
>madness :)

All the more reason to stay in bed then :-)

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