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

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, J. Lance Cotton wrote:

> On Monday 05 May 2003 17:34, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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?

No.  We currently ignore kill or cancel packets.

The alert packets can contain a start date/time and an expiration
date/time.  We use the expiration timestamp to delete it.  If the
code to do that is wrong, that could explain a few things.

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