Subj : JS Object save_msg()
To : Digital Man
From : deon
Date : Thu Dec 19 2024 12:58 am
Re: JS Object save_msg()
By: Digital Man to deon on Tue Dec 17 2024 10:57 pm
Howdy,
> > Can you always get the timezone from the OS?
> Could, yes, but prefer to give the sysop the option to be more specific.
> > Why have a configured timezone at all?
> Explained above.
OK, fair enough. I guess I dont understand why a sysop would configure their OS timezone different to their BBS timezone.
If they didnt have access to the OS configuration, then fair enough, but I would have thought that was a pretty rare/remote case - and in that case setting that scfg...Local Time Zone setting could be used to display the times in that timezone they wanted.
> Your message came here as posted on:
> "Wed Dec 18 2024 05:14 pm AEDT (30 minutes ago)"
> If we only used "what the OS returns", your message would have been posted
> on: "Wed Dec 18 2024 05:14 pm +11:00 (30 minutes ago)"
Personally, I prefer the later. Its pretty absolute, where some folks may not know what AEDT/ACST/ACDT are.
Anyway, while the OS might just give you the timezone UTC offset, a quick parse of /etc/localtime (on linux and mac at least) would give you the timezone string as well. Dont know if that is at all possible on Win.
Personally I think that's better than a scenario where the time or time_t value is forced to a timezone that makes the usage of that value untrue. <shrug>
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