[cvsnt-dev] Changing Time

David Somers dsomers at omz13.com
Tue Aug 1 15:35:31 BST 2006


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Tony Hoyle wrote:

> David Somers wrote:
>> Ummm... slight SNAFU: what if the client and server are in different
>> timezones? Probably need to get the client to mangle -Z or -z LT to the
>> numeric form (-z +nnnn/-nnnn) when sending to the server instead of
>> sending as is.
>> 
> That's what I just checked in (it's exactly how the -T options work
> except they just send the offsets rather than mangling them).

OK. Sorry. My caffeine levels have been up and down.

> One thing I noticed is that doesn't cope with DST well... I'm not sure
> there's an easy way around that, since different platforms have
> different ideas of how to express timezones eg. 'Europe/London' works
> fine on Linux, but not HPUX, and Windows doesn't even have names for its
> timezones...

For Windows, you'll have to glark it from:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation 

David


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