Hi Alexander, Yes, you're correct that there's a problem displaying times around DST. But it feels as if we're making every nfsen user suffer (well, make the mental conversion) every time they use nfsen for a situation that occurs two hours per year.
If I were going to solve it, I would think about changing the GUI to include a Localtime/UTC dropdown. It could: - Default to localtime display - Indicate in the display that a plot indicates a DST change (different color background, etc) - Allow a switch to UTC as needed. Sites that prefer UTC could leave it set there. I'm not sufficiently motivated to take this on, but I thank the list for their thoughts. Rich Brown Lyme, NH USA > On May 18, 2017, at 5:52 AM, Alexander Talos-Zens <a...@univie.ac.at> wrote: > > Rich, > > Den 2017-05-17 kl. 05:36, skrev Rich Brown: > >> My question: What would be involved in setting nfsen to use localtime >> instead of UTC? Thanks for all this good work! > > Sorry, I have no answer to your question. But having suffered myself > very much from logfiles in localtime, I'm curious: How do you plan to > deal with daylight saving time? > > FWIW, we're always in UTC for several reasons like: > > * Once a year, local time between 2:00 and 3:00 occurs twice and > there's no means to tell, when an event occured > > * Endless confusion arises with timestamps dating from before a DST > change. If they are displayed in the correct local time of the event, > you would have to convert it into your current timezone. Otherwise, a > particular event would all of a sudden switch to another displayed time > twice a year. > > Greetings from Vienna, > > Alexander > > -- > Alexander Talos-Zens > IT-Security - ACOnet-CERT > Zentraler Informatikdienst > http://zid.univie.ac.at > > Universität Wien > Universitätsstraße 7 > 1010 Wien > T +43-1-4277-14351 > a...@univie.ac.at > GPG-Key-Id: 0x757A494B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Nfsen-discuss mailing list Nfsen-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfsen-discuss
