[Xastir-Dev] UTC versus Localtime?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Howard, Chris wrote:

> 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.

Correct.


> 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.

Turns out Xastir needed one lined added to the code that corrected
the time if the "tm_dst" variable was set.  A daylight savings time
bug.  We were off by an hour for the expire times of alerts.

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