On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Fred Taylor wrote: > > > Ed I agree 1000%. But these apps were originally developed 18 years ago. > > No reason to think of such things then. It's amazing they were even Y2K > > compliant! > > Time zones existed 18 years ago! :) > > What I'm saying is that as you attempt to fix this issue, don't try > to be clever and come up with some whiz-bang converter routine that will > adjust timezones inside your code - every time I've seen someone attempt > this, they've failed miserably. Just make sure that all initial times are > created in UTC, and handled as such everywhere except when displaying. >
Time zones existed back then, but the app and the users were only in one. Even when the user base expanded, the app still only ran in one place, and the far flung users ran it using remote desktop. They still had their Outlook and other time sensitive apps on their local computers. This only became an issue when ALL the user's apps moved to the Cloud and the time they see there is their local time, no matter where they connect from. So now the app is confused about the different times it now sees that it didn't have to deal with before. We're discussing the options this afternoon. But as with all things in the programming world, the fix is needed yesterday! All the clever ideas were immediately trashed soon after their suggestion. Some of those were even my ideas! <g> Fred > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajcbksrty8bwphkp3zj6d6nukzq_kd8vp5xr86cahres9na...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
