Daylight savings time problem

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:45:47 -0000
Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2008-03-26, Salsa <durieux_br at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> 
> >    I'm sorry, but could you be more specific? How exactly should I use UTC?
> 
> In my experience, using local time for timestamps is always a
> big mistake, so I presume he meant don't use local time in the
> file names -- put the UTC date/time in the filenames.  

Yes.  One problem with using local times is that once a year you can
overwrite files.  The best option is to use the number of seconds since
EPOCH and let programs convert it to UTC or local time as required.

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