Re: Daylight savings ending not being accounted for in grab_na

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

[North American timezone changeover]

>> Do you mean 02:00 DST or 02:00 winter time?
>
>Good point.  2:00 DST.  So early this morning it turned 12am then 1am
>then 1:30am then 1:59am then 1am again.

So it definitely is different to Europe.

>>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.
>
>This is true, in some number of cases I suppose and there should be
>a provision to handle it, but I would think that for the most part,
>the timezone that the PC is in (or rather that the user is in[1]) is
>the same as the timezone for the listings being fetched.

Like I said, the PC's current timezone could be the default choice in
--configure but it should not affect the listings output when
grabbing.

>[1] keeping in mind that even if a (multi-user) computer is on the
>    west coast of North America, where it's Pacific time, I can be on
>    the east coast, log into and set my timezone to Eastern time zone
>    to get local time representaion

The user shouldn't have to set the timezone before running the grabber
in order to get correct results.  If the grabber depends upon TZ being
a certain value then it should set that itself.

-- 
Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>