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From: sarrel@cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Timezone and timechange resources
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Date: 13 Oct 88 16:23:57 GMT
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Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science
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I was thinking.  Is Apple listening... ? :-)

Wouldn't it be nice if Apple added timezone and timechange resources
to the set of international resources.  The timezone resource would
simply contain the name of the timezone in which the computer is
located and the offset (in hours) from GMT.  The timechange resource
would contain the dates and times when the timezone changes (like from
daylight savings to standard time).  I think this would be a really
nice addition.  Also, there could be a new time/date format that
included the current time zone.  Really, though, any decent computer
system these days should take care of switching from daylight time to
standard time automatically.

Also, if you really want to get fancy, you could add a location
resource that would contain the latitude, longitude and elevation of
the mac.  This would fit in nicely with the map resource.  There could
automatically be an entry for the machine on the map of the world.

C'mon, Apple, if you can spend time to write the Map CDEV, certainly,
you can take the time to add a couple of extra resources...
-=-
 Marc Sarrel, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277
 sarrel@cis.ohio-state.edu
 "If you wanna have fun, go to Washington.  Spokane!"  -- Cleric Apton