> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Rick Measham wrote: >> I live in Australia and my timezone is +1100. But I host in the US someplace >> where the machine has a timezone of -0600. I'd prefer to be able to set my >> local timezone. Maybe ask the user on install but make a default of the >> machine's local TZ?
On 6/2/03 10:14 am, Dave Rolsky at [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > 1. The "local" time is _calculated_ on each request. We don't calculate > it when the module is installed and then save it forever. > > 2. You can change your box's TZ, if it's your box. If not, you can't rely > on the "local" time! > > 3. We don't need to know your local offset for testing, except to test > that setting "time_zone => 'local'" works. Testing that is not important > enough to ask someone to tell us their offset, which they'll get wrong > half the time anyway. Thanks Dave, I appreciate the clarification. Cheers! Rick -------------------------------------------------------- There are 10 kinds of people: those that understand binary, and those that don't. -------------------------------------------------------- The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start selling vacuum cleaners --------------------------------------------------------
