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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