[Xastir-Dev] UTC versus Localtime?

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

We have to look at the $TZ environmental variable...

Conversions are then based on evaluation of that...

Or did I miss something again?
gerry


Curt Mills wrote:
> What the heck happens if someone is running their Unix/Linux box in
> GMT instead of localtime?
> 
> We have areas of the code which do conversions between the two.  If
> someone is already running UTC, how do we easily determine whether
> to convert a time/date?  The specific cases I can think of off-hand
> are:
> 
> 1) Where we set the computer time from GPS readings, and
> 2) Where we decide to expire WX alerts from the screen.
> 
> There may well be more cases.
> 
> Dale Huguley mentioned that Xastir didn't seem to be displaying all
> of the WX alerts that he expected.  He's running his machine in GMT
> time.  Could it be that alerts appeared to be expired because of
> this and therefore didn't show on his screen?
> 

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