Please send patches. :-)

Cameron Moore writes:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2002.02.13 12:32]:
> > Paul Deppe writes:
> > > Gents,
> > > 
> > > With CVS as of 1200 EST, 2/13/2002, --time-offset does not work properly
> > > when used in conjunction with --start-date-whatever.  For example:
> > > 
> > > --start-date-gmt=2002:02:12:17:00:00
> > > --time-offset=+01:15:00
> > > 
> > > ...starts up at 1/1/1970 1:15:00.
> > 
> > As best as I can tell, these two options are incompatible.  Each
> > write's the specified value into "/sim/startup/time-offset".  There is
> > a bug though because --start-date-gmt sets
> > "/sim/startup/time-offset-type" to "gmt", while --time-offset doesn't
> > reset this back to "system-offset" which is the default.
> > 
> > So, I will assert that this could have never worked as you had hoped,
> > and perhaps before you were specifying the arguments differently or
> > hadn't noticed that it wasn't working.
> > 
> > Someone should probably take a look at the initial time specification
> > code after 0.7.9 and clean a few things up.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Curt.
> 
> Curt,
> If the --time-offset option is incompatible with the other time options,
> we need to change options.cxx and the fgfs.1 man page to remove the "can
> be used in combination with other time options" lines describing
> --time-offset.  Thanks
> -- 
> Cameron Moore
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