[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 12057] REGRESSION: JavaScript Date Is One Day In The Future in BST timezone

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12057





------- Comment #6 from ddkilzer at webkit.org  2007-01-01 13:15 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> I can only assume that BST was in effect on Jan 02, 1970, or that there is a
> bug in Mac OS X.

According to these two links, "BST" was "British Standard Time" (+0100) during
1968-1971 and was a year-round time zone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/british-time/

It appears that getUTCOffset() needs a fix similar to getDSTOffset(double)
since Mac OS X has, "historically accurate [time zone] information".


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