On Oct 12, 2004, at 9:43 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to determine the best way of saying 'The current time in
>>>> UTC
>>>> with no time zone information'.
>>>
>>> Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
>>
>> Not if you're used to the Unix concept of storing "seconds since the
>> epoch".
>> In that model the quantity you're storing is entirely time zone
>> agnostic.
> But then one is storing an interval, not a point in time.
By that logic, all "times" are intervals. '2004-10-12 22:09' is 2004
years, 10 months, 12 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes since 0.
Michael Glaesemann
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