Les Mikesell wrote:
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
I am aware of this.
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
As I stated, the time is given in GMT along with an offset. So,
who cares how my system displays its local time?
[snip]
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.
This is not affected by how I have my local time display set up.
Mike
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