Re: Summer (Winter) Time Fun

2015-04-01 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
I was going to post a link to EXACTLY the same video clip! There are simply some things that defy any reasonable solution, but a 3am check-point on the change-over day is perhaps the least painful... or you allow a 1-day grace period on any date. Hugh Senior FLCo Peter wrote... If you have 10

Re: Summer (Winter) Time Fun

2015-04-01 Thread Pyyhtiä Christer
Thanks, folks! It looks like there is a great challenge to make it work correctly. Let me refine the problem just to add interest. First, the client signs into the app (getDealDone), at the same time committing to automatically renewing subscription. Let's assume this is on the next to the

Re: Summer (Winter) Time Fun

2015-04-01 Thread Peter Haworth
I also found another video by the same guy explaining how UTF-8 works at the binary level. I think I finally understand it! Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html On Wed, Apr

Summer (Winter) Time Fun

2015-03-31 Thread Pyyhtiä Christer
I wonder if anyone else has met this funny problem. And possibly coded out a solution for it. In my app, the automatically renewing in-app subscription term ended today, at 14:30. This expiry time was calculated in the app by just adding one month at the previous payment time (because

Re: Summer (Winter) Time Fun

2015-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
It might be easier to just calculate what day it is at 3 PM local time. That way the time differences won't matter. On March 31, 2015 7:20:46 AM CDT, Pyyhtiä Christer chris...@mindcrea.com wrote: I wonder if anyone else has met this funny problem. And possibly coded out a solution for it. In

Re: Summer (Winter) Time Fun

2015-03-31 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Hi Pyyhtiä, I don't have any technical suggestions for you. But a non-tech suggestion and a point of information: - suggestion: add a grace period. Possibly display the information that your term ends today - but in practise give a 24-hour grace period when the app still works. If the