Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times

[Peter da Silva]

In article <5930003 at eecs.nwu.edu>, gore at eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
> I don't understand...  If you store your local time and timezone, you know
> the timezone, right?  How is storing (local_time, time_zone) different from
> storing (local_time - time_zone)?  And the latter equals GMT.

Because if you don't know the timezone you can store a token that indicates
you don't know the timezone and the time is a local time.
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