gharris999;375280 Wrote: > Please tell me that the French, that great nation of rationalists, don't > do anything as bizzare as is common in the States: allowing small, > local units of government to opt out of observing DST. There is no DST > for the entire state of Arizona. You used to find individual counties > in states like Indiana that didn't observe DST. Thus the map of the > "edge" of a time-zone in the US ends up looking "furry" and changes > from season to season. But in France, it's all just one time-zone, > right? > > I ask this because my dream of the ultimate beta test of SrvrPowerCtrl > would involve a SqueezeBox, a small 12v powered SqueezeCenter server > with my music collection, a barge and the Canal du Midi. I'd hate to > think that I would have to reset the locale on the server every couple > of kilometers. In fact, we have 1 TZ for the whole European Union (CET-Central European Time), and even a standard rule. We're going back and forth 1 hour. CET is GMT+1 (winter) / GMT+2 (summer) If you miss the canal du midi and end up on the Rhine your Squeezebox won't feel a thing. Steer clear of supertankers, though. There is one exception, of course. The British are GMT in winter and GMT+1 in summer.
The choice of TZ (to some extent) and of the DST rule (very much) is a political matter. Over time some countries have used funny schemes, like 15min. every day, or 1h30mn shifts... I believe that with the rise of the IT infrastructure DST rules are getting more standardized and simple, but this can change any year. A package such as DateTime that is maintained to apply the correct math for each TZ is a real boon. I think I'll run a Pink Panther movie tonight... -- epoch1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
