[mythtv-users] MythTV does not handle daylight savings properly
Craig Treleaven
ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Wed Nov 7 00:16:59 UTC 2012
At 6:29 PM -0500 11/6/12, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>On 11/05/2012 05:12 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>>On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
>>....
>>>People generally think of time, as it is in there current time zone. Given
>>>that most Myth Installations are not portable, there is no reason a User
>>>should be confronted by UTC Times at any time.
>>For the non-power rule user, they do not. As Mike Dean said, power
>>rule users need to know much more, and timezone conversions are
>>now part of that required knowledge, and like a lot of other things, will
>>probably become automatic, and something you do not think about,
>>after a short period of time of using the convert functions.
>>
>>Personally, I just run all the devices I can on UTC (including my
>>watch, mobile phone, clocks on wall, in the vehicle). It takes but
>>a moment to do the math in my head to subtract the 7/8 hours
>>needed to respond to someone who actually insists on local time.
>>
>
>Not only have I been saying that we need to get rid of DST across
>the US, I would also love to get rid of time zones and have the
>entire world use UTC in their daily lives. I'd have no problem
>whatsoever having breakfast at noon and lunch at 5pm and dinner at
>midnight, nor putting in a grueling day of work from 2pm to 10pm.
>Unfortunately, it seems I have to convince most everyone else in the
>world. The only reason people think that noon is lunchtime is
>because that's what they're used to--but if they grew up having
>lunch at 5pm...
Nope, can't support you on that one Mike! It was a good Canadian
that developed standard time: Sanford Fleming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandford_Fleming
From Newfoundland to British Columbia, we've got 5 time zones and, by
God, we're gonna keep'm!! ;)
Craig
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