Setting timezones

Nick Guenther kousue at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 17:55:13 CET 2007


On Nov 12, 2007 11:15 AM, Joshua Layne <joshua at willowisp.net> wrote:

> if I travel, I want my timezone updated, but not the system clock (which
> should be UTC if it is a good little linux system...) - then all
> calendar entries (which should be stored in UTC internally!) would be
> accurate.
> There are two sources that could automate this:
> 1) the local time that is broadcast from the GSM towers - an offset
> could be calculated and an _appropriate_ timezone could be automatically
> chosen (note that there can be more than one timezone with the same
> offset at a given time of the year, so it would not be able to
> distinguish between those, although perhaps there could be a 'favorites'
> list of timezones in the user's profile) - at minimum, the offset would
> be correct.

> Apologies if this is viewed as thread-jacking.  Not intended as such - I
> just feel that with a 'location-aware' device, a user shouldn't have to
> enter things like timezone - the system should just 'know'.

Agreed!
-Nick



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