From: Ernest Ellingson <erne@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T23:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Daylight savings time in US

Eric I. wrote:
> I'm sure the Time class' isdst method is making a call into the
> standard C library, first by calling the localtime function and then
> looking at the tm_isdst field of the returned structure.  Therefore it
> depends on which version of the standard C library is being called,
> i.e., what's installed on the machine you compiled on.
> 
> Eric
> 
> Interested in hands-on, on-site Ruby training?  See http://
> LearnRuby.com
> for information about a well-reviewed class.
> 
The Ruby version I'm using on windows (1.85) I installed using the
pre-compiled installation.  I don't know what it used to compile it
although I'm pretty certain its some version of Microsoft's compiler.

Ernie