RE: os.time() vs. isdst

Hi

> In a Unix system (where the epoch is 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970)
> running in Rio de Janeiro (which is three hours west of Greenwich), we
> have the following examples:

> It seems reasonable to assume that the author did not move to another
> country between the two examples.

:)

Thanks for updating that page so swiftly then Roberto, I am sure that paragraph wasnt there the
first time I read it tonight. Cough Cough !!

Regards Geoff

P.S Many thanks for coming up with such an interesting and powerful programming language, I am enjoying learning it.





> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:35:39 -0300
> From: roberto@inf.puc-rio.br
> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
> Subject: Re: os.time() vs. isdst
>
> > I maintain that is a pretty horrid example for a newbie reading that
> > os.date page, as there is no mention of time zone dependancy at that
> > point.
>
> I am not sure what I call "at that point", but there is a clear mention
> a couple of paragraphs before:
>
> In a Unix system (where the epoch is 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970)
> running in Rio de Janeiro (which is three hours west of Greenwich), we
> have the following examples:
>
> It seems reasonable to assume that the author did not move to another
> country between the two examples.
>
> -- Roberto
>