Re: Daylight savings ending not being accounted for in grab_na

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

>>Please look at bst_dates() in UK_TZ.pm and check that it also
>>works correctly for America.
>
>I think it could.  I have not run any tests or looked at the exact
>input and output of most functions.  The one descrepancy is that in
>North America, we adjust time at 2:00am, not 1:00am.

Do you mean 02:00 DST or 02:00 winter time?

>>This is a special case of needing to know the timezone used for the
>>listings.  If zap2it doesn't give a timezone in its web pages then the
>>--configure stage should prompt for one (perhaps giving the local TZ
>>as a default).  And also ask whether DST is used.
>
>This is true, indeed, but on UNIX/Linux (at least) the O/S has all
>of these details.

Unfortunately it does not, you cannot assume that the current PC's
timezone is the same as the area whose TV listings are being fetched.

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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>