2007 DST Change

[Les Mikesell]

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
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