[Xastir-Dev] UTC versus Localtime?

[Howard, Chris]

I may be off base, but I always understood that
the underlying time _is_ UTC, and it is the 
timezone setting that is used to get the local
offset.

If they have a timezone set and then in addition
they set the displayed time to be what UTC is,
then they need to fix their machine configuration.


Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Mills [mailto:hacker at tc.fluke.com]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:47 PM
To: xastir-dev at krypton.hscs.virginia.edu
Subject: [Xastir-Dev] UTC versus Localtime?



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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