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From: paul@unisoft.UUCP (n)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Timezone and timechange resources
Message-ID: <1331@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 23:39:50 GMT
References: <24520@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1002@netxcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
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In article <1002@netxcom.UUCP> dmcintee@netxcom.UUCP (Dave McIntee) writes:
>In article <24520@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes:
>>
>>Wouldn't it be nice if Apple added timezone and timechange resources
>>to the set of international resources.  The timezone resource would
>
>Make that 15-minute increments from GMT, or there will be areas of the
>world that won't be covered. Take that from a worldwide express company.

	And make sure it can handle:

		- Daylight savings

		- Places with local times > 12 hours before/prior GMT
		  (such as Tonga)

		- Solar time (this is HARD - many Arab countries use the
		  times the sun rises/sets rather than 'mechanical' time
		  (maybe that's what the map DA is really for))

	And make sure it works with A/UX .... (which, being Unix, uses GMT
	internally) ... at the moment during daylight savings my system is
	out by an hour when I switch between the two different OS's

		Paul


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