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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] DateTime and Daylight Saving Time Transitions
From: danielc@analysisandsolutions.com (Daniel Convissor)

Hi Stas:

> That's what I don't understand - so in the real code, what would be
> the use case where I'd want to use ST/DST? I.e., if I know the exact
> time, I could just use the timestamp or GMT time which doesn't have
> transitions.

Yeah, this stuff is very edge case.  It is for use when one needs to
have the transition information and create a time zone object that's in
the repeated period during a backward transition.  One case it's needed
is in unit testing DateTime.

Thanks,

--Dan

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