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April 2nd, 2002, 07:44 PM
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| Daylight Saving Time in user cp
We've just put the clocks forward for British Summer Time (GMT+1h) and while I'm quite impressed with the number of electronic gadgets that have put themselves forward (my PC, my mobile, my PDA) I've noted that TechIMO has stayed on straight GMT!
Rather than get the site to do it automatically - which would be nasty to program and prone to mistakes - and rather than me having to pretend I'm on Central European Time - how about a 'Daylight Saving' checkbox in the User Options control panel that we get to tick/untick twice a year?
That is if you actually have daylight saving in the States (hey, I don't know!) - otherwise there'd be not much point I guess... | 
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April 2nd, 2002, 08:00 PM
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OMG you're right. Same problem here:
All times are GMT +1 hour. The time now is 12:59 AM.
Its actually 1:59 AM already!! | |
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April 2nd, 2002, 08:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Montclair, California That BURNING smell isnt my computer... IS IT????
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There was a time change???? When??
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April 2nd, 2002, 08:04 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Montclair, California That BURNING smell isnt my computer... IS IT????
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Ahhh, I looked it up, I changes next Sunday for us. The first Sunday of April. In SPRING it springs foward and in FALL it falls back.
Never really thought about it. | |
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April 2nd, 2002, 08:05 PM
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Ah found a "solution":
You could set the time offset to another timezone to "solve" this problem here: http://www.techimo.com/forum/member....on=editoptions
BTW I didn't knew the summertime in the UK starts on the same day as on the Continent. Guess they changed it to make it more universal. | |
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April 2nd, 2002, 08:07 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Speed
Ahhh, I looked it up, I changes next Sunday for us. The first Sunday of April. In SPRING it springs foward and in FALL it falls back.
Never really thought about it. | So next week the time will be right? | |
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April 2nd, 2002, 08:07 PM
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I'd call it a workaround rather than a solution - I'm using it now, but it's just not that elegant... | |
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April 2nd, 2002, 08:21 PM
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Yeah was using the " " already.
BTW WinXP doesn't say it changed to summertime. Win95/98 always asked!! | |
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April 2nd, 2002, 08:32 PM
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WinXP doesn't seem very polite compared to the others. Not sure if winNT4 asked either (I had to reinstall it to fix a networking prob which IE5.5 gave me - naughty  ).
Does anyone know if win2K let's you know it changed?
It's probably all part of the Billy Plan for "invisible computing"  | |
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April 7th, 2002, 07:41 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by DutchMaster
Ah found a "solution":
You could set the time offset to another timezone to "solve" this problem here: http://www.techimo.com/forum/member....on=editoptions
BTW I didn't knew the summertime in the UK starts on the same day as on the Continent. Guess they changed it to make it more universal. | Forgot to put it back
The time is correct again for the right zone | |
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