[kronolith] Re: [imp] timezone calculation

Atif Ghaffar aghaffar@developer.ch
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:41:32 +0200


Jan Schneider wrote:
> You're completely right (though this belongs rather to kronolith@ or de=
v@). 
I just replied to a message which was in the imp@list :)


> I 
> Already did a very small pathch to kronolith to handle timezones but th=
is one 
> has to be changed now.
> The problem to solve is the fact that mcal probably doesn't support the=
 "TZ" 
> env var neither does the upcoming sql driver. And how can we calculate =
timezone 
> differences out of timezone entries like "Europe/Berlin"?

The timezone should be recorded as an offset to GMT etc.
Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/e-reminders/
This might give you some ideas.


I am using this as the reminder service on our ISP.

cheers




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