Mike McCarty wrote:
taharka wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 22:56 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
I really don't care. I don't observe DST anyway, and would prefer
that the machine not change the time it displays. I don't change
my clocks.
Question, will this non-observance be reflected in sent emails/calender
software, etc when the change goes into effect?
I don't understand why you would care what time/date etc. are
on my e-mails. But, if you will look carefully at the information
on e-mails, you'll see that they use GMT anyway, along with
an offset.
Most of the business world revolves around meetings and conference calls
scheduled with calendar entries sent by email. These are automatically
converted to the recipient's local time and may include alarms that pop
up ahead of time. As I understand it, outlook does the adjustment when
the mail is received and the DST fix isn't included in normal windows
updates and was only available separately recently. That means anyone
who received a calendar entry before applying the fix will have the
wrong offset stored for their meeting time. There may be a fix for that
too, but I haven't followed the details or whether Evolution (which can
sort-of interoperate) has a similar issue. But anyway, don't
underestimate the importance of being able to schedule things correctly
across timezones - and expect a lot of screwups from people who rely on
those popup alarms.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
