RE: [security-services] Following up on dateTime

[Hal Lockhart <hal.lockhart@entegrity.com>]

Title: RE: [security-services] Following up on dateTime

 
> I don't think it allows DST, does it? You have to specify an
> offset, not
> a time zone symbol. Your local offset might change across the
> boundary,
> but that's handled by the time library that generates the offset I
> assume, and the stamp on an earlier assertion is computed to GMT for
> comparison based on the offset at that time.

If it is always a positive or negative offset from UTC I guess that is ok, but I wonder how many libraries will correctly handle offsets that are not an interger multiple of 1 hour.

Hal