[Xastir-Dev] Re: [Xastir] May 4th Tornado Outbreak

[J. Lance Cotton]

On Monday 05 May 2003 17:34, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
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> At first glance the code in time_from_aprsstring() appears to be
> incorrect.  It looks like we're subtracting the offsets from our
> expiration time, creating a time_t out of it, and then comparing
> that to time_now() for expiration.  The end result is that we expire
> a few hours too soon or too late depending on the timezone we're in.
> Anyone concur?


Not sure at the moment. I'm in a GMT -5 timezone. Would that cause a late or 
early expiration? I wouldn't notice it anyway, I think, since wxserver sends 
out the kill packet when an alert expires anyway, right?

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