time change

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes:

> Invariably it turns out to be time-zone problems caused by  the  fact
> that  the java libraries use local time internally, and the code just
> can't figure out how to adjust for DST  for  timestamps  coming  from
> other  machines.

That's a shame. I just recently started learning java, and I was happy 
to read that its internal clock type was a 64-bit millisecond clock 
based on the Unix epoch, which gave it a 3000-year timespan. Too bad 
they screwed up on the timezones.


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