Yes, Oliver, you're perfectly right. It was a track just some kilometers off the shore.
Thanks & Regards, Davide Oliver Eichler ha scritto: > Hi Davide, > > it depends on your track data. QLGT has a very rough image off the time > zones. "Rough" means really rough. Thus borders are very much simplified. And > the sea is always UTC. When the track is loaded each track point is tested > for a timezone different than UTC. Once a point is found, the complete track > is assumed to be that timezone. > > This works great as long as the track is in the middle of a country. If it is > close to it's borders a wrong timezone might be detected. And if it is close > to the shore it might be detected as UTC. That is why you can select the > timezone manually if everything fails. > > The core problem is to transform the location into a timezone properly. You > would need to resolve borders very detailed to make it fail save. There are > servers that are able to do so. But I wanted an offline solution and decided > to use a PNG as a two dimensional look-up table. The PNG can be found here > > http://civicmaps.org/maps/timezone.png > > Thus probably your track is close to the seaside and is one of those test > cases that fail. > > > Oliver > > > > Gesendet: Montag, 25. März 2013 um 09:46 Uhr > Von: solitone <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Qlandkartegt-users] Auto time setting > Hi, > > how is the automatic time setting (under Configure->General->Time) > supposed to work? > > When I select UTC, and load a GPX file, points have the same time they > have in the GPX file (i.e. they are indeed UTC). > > When I choose local, time is converted to my local time zone (Rome, UTC+1). > > But when I set automatic, they are in UTC again. What is the purpose of > this setting? > > Thanks & Cheers, > Davide ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
