Thanks Paul, I was hoping you were still hanging around here ;) Pls forgive my ignorance in this area, I am truly clueless...but learning.
The datasource I'm running against has date/time stored in local time, EST. On the "search parameter" page of a report I'm offering a drop down similar to what windows uses in the clock of the OS. Essentially the user picks the GMT/UTC offset they wish to use when running the report. The datetime displayed on the resulting report is a conversion of the original date/time to the GMT offset selected by the user. Example: 1. Value in Database: (GMT -5:00 hours) Eastern Time (US & Canada) 01/01/2004 14:00 2. User Selects (GMT -8:00 hours) Pacific Time (US & Canada) 3. Difference is 3hrs 4. Value displayed: 01/01/2004 11:00 " however if you're only using UTC (not sure what you meant) then there's no point worrying about DST." >From your definition (I think) my approach is valid? Cheers! Stace -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 11:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Timezone and Daylight Savings Stacy Young wrote: > My question is someone asked about Daylight Savings and how that would > affect people in other parts of the world. Is this something that one > would need to account for? As far as I know it's hit and miss as to who no it's not "hit or miss". depends a great deal on history, economic ties & physical location. i'd advise using java's TZ data & let your users pick their TZ (and let the underlying java worry about if and when they use DST, etc.): http://www.sustainablegis.com/projects/tz/testTZCFC.cfm however if you're only using UTC (not sure what you meant) then there's no point worrying about DST. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:186490 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
