Comments on: confused about UTC time? solution inside! http://www.linuxized.com/2010/08/confused-about-utc-time-solution-inside/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed wired's /dev/urandom space Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:12:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James http://www.linuxized.com/2010/08/confused-about-utc-time-solution-inside/comment-page-1/#comment-3832 James Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:54:38 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=686#comment-3832 The conversion from UTC to Julliet (time in `whatever time zone I am currently in`) is trivial, given that you know the UTC-offset for Julliet, and the DST dates.

This information is hidden in your tool, which limits its’ usefulness.

A more useful approach would be :
[Time of interest (current time by default), user-supplied]

[Current time in UTC - auto-converted] + [UTC Offset of current location - auto-generated] + [DST Offset + Dates when applicable - auto-generated] == > [Local Time]

Still, having used plain-html tools for this task in the past, this is far superior to them

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