Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Christoph M. Becker" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Date arithmetic Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 01:25:04 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <111120142237479787%timstreater@greenbee.net> <6814026.8sujcrue1K@PointedEars.de> <5592bc20-5fa3-4b2d-8534-1c81d62c31a5@googlegroups.com> <5371045.XxPr97Xf0d@PointedEars.de> <40469088.RWZSUOfdCW@PointedEars.de> <1580490.WhVdJr593u@PointedEars.de> <3141518.r5G2MTVnWM@PointedEars.de> <2322297.0aiH9ipvOy@PointedEars.de> <4199655.iK7jVI0G7p@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1417134294 3622 eJwNwokRwDAIA7CVTMFAx+FJ9h+hPYnq4hPmdOP9HWheVeDQtr3mCRZehDGT0FpmO7ZDzkh8B/cQZg== (28 Nov 2014 00:24:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:24:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLfAkgZ4PWv4TewamcDIKBi6tWszyNUOKuNxQhOB3uIrUyCDf9rTY35Xv8fA/d In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:8w34+3Avf/+uDnZtND2Wo8Au2uU= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXrNCi5wiD/09YQhNU4aKcw5n7GYC7A83w0UmkRb9d7BM5qzYdtHijJf0OMxB2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:26226 Dr J R Stockton wrote: > In comp.lang.javascript message <4199655.iK7jVI0G7p@PointedEars.de>, > Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:25:35, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn > posted: > >> Dr J R Stockton wrote: >> >>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn posted: >>> >>>> [Dr J R Stockton wrote:] >>>> >>>>> Your file date.js misuses the term "timezone" or "time zone"; >>>> >>>> Prove it. >>> >>> Read Wikipedia on Time Zone, and the sites of the better National >>> Standards laboratories to show that Wikipedia is right. >> >> The above is not the proof that was required of you, but only several other >> unfounded claims. It is the failure to provide proof. > > I say that you are in error; you should check the facts for yourself. > You can, no doubt, read for > example. Note how in the third paragraph it distinguishes between > "Zeitzone" and "Zonenzeit". Unfortunately, the German Wikipedia is not reliable, IMO[1]. Therefore I refuse to consider it as authoritative in any way. Skimming the "Definition" section in the English Wikipedia article you had referred to[2], I have not been able to find any distinction between "time zone"/"timezone" and "zone time". [1] Not too long ago I was involved in a discussion about an article that would have required correction, but the suggestions have not even been thoroughly considered, let alone being investigated, but have been simply rejected. [2] -- Christoph M. Becker