RE: RE: RE: [xsl] GMT to BST converter

["Jim Neff" <jneff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cknell@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:16 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: RE: RE: [xsl] GMT to BST converter
> 
> All the references I've found on the web (including the BBC) 
> say that it (BST) begins and ends at 0100 hours. In the U.S. 
> the time is 0200 so the issue of "Is it today or yesterday?" 
> doesn't come up.
> --
> Charles Knell
> cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:     Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent:     Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:39:03 +0100
> To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  RE: RE: [xsl] GMT to BST converter
> 
> > When the clock is turned back at the end of Summer Time, does 
> > the time then become 00:00:01 of the same day or is it set 
> > back to midnight of the previous day?
> 
> I believe that British Summer Time always ends at 3 am, and 
> the clock is set
> back to 2 am.
> 
> (I heard a little story once, if Tommie will allow me to tell 
> it, of someone
> who was up late one Saturday night coding. At 3 am he got a 
> Windows pop-up
> "do you want to put the clock back?". Clicks OK, keeps 
> working. An hour
> later, at 3 am, another Windows pop-up, "do you want to put the clock
> back?".... Don't these guys test anything?)
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/