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Trivial Improvement: Daylight Savings
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Tue 30 Sep 2003 07:16 AM (UTC) |
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| Hi there :)
How hard would it be to have the forum software be aware of daylight savings? I'm in pacific time and the forum knows that, but it is still putting all times one hour behind what they should be.
It's fairly trivial and minor, I know, but I seem to recall that getting whether or not it's daylight savings is also fairly easy. I could be completely wrong on that, and if that's the case please ignore this comment. Otherwise, please don't. *grin* :P Thanks. |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Tue 30 Sep 2003 08:14 AM (UTC) |
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| Actually I think that finding if daylight saving is active is so hard it has been de-implemented from the Unix gettimeofday (or something similar).
For one thing, it changes according to political decisions. For instance, a few years ago it was moved forward a week or so in Australia so that the OIympic Games would be in daylight saving time.
I suggest that, twice a year, you simply update the time difference field in the forum. I suppose it would be possible to modify it so that you specify a date range (on a user-by-user basis) in which it should automatically do that for you. |
- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Tue 30 Sep 2003 05:03 PM (UTC) |
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| Really? gettimeofday is actually the function I was thinking of that returned a little 1 or a 0 depending on whether or not it was active. I didn't know it'd been de-implemented... but I suppose that yes, it makes sense, if countries just randomly change it politically. Why do we even have daylight savings anymore...? *mutter*
Anyways, date ranges sound good. And if I have to, changing it manually isn't so bad either. As I said, it was just a trivial improvement and I'm happy to live without. :) |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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| Posted by
| Flannel
USA (1,230 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Tue 30 Sep 2003 09:02 PM (UTC) |
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| Same reason we did back then.
Save Candles (or, update to modern era: Save Electricity) |
~Flannel
Messiah of Rose
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