Sorry for top post. How about when you tap the button / check the box that enables time since, we open a pop-up with the current time and ask the user to confirm? Yeah, I know. Pop-ups are evil. But this does seem like one of those cases where maybe it's worth it? Because I like the time sync idea.
There is one flaw, though, now that I think about it. Usually you download your dives after a day of diving. They may not be the best time to adjust the time zone... /D -- >From my phone -------- Original Message -------- From: Miika Turkia <[email protected]> Sent: Wed Jul 19 20:45:03 PDT 2017 To: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Subsurface Mailing List <[email protected]>, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]>, Jef Driesen <[email protected]>, devel <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [RFD] divecomputer time/date synchronization while downloading dives On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyway, what this all builds up to is that I'd actually like to just > set the time automatically when I connect the dive computer to my > laptop (or my cellphone, for that matter - usually those end up being > synchronized to the local time quite nicely). I do like the idea, but I am hesitant about syncing the time with laptop automatically. That is because it usually takes a few days for me to update my timezone. Even with the manual time sync, it has happened to me once that I synced wrong time to my DC. Also with my tablet, there is no automatic timezone changes so the mobile version might also be missing the correct time. > But I suspect people will hate that patch because it does that time > sync thing *unconditionally*. It would be good to have a check-box and > some way to actually set the "sync time" flag. But for that to happen, > we'd need not just the UI side, we'd need to have the libdivecomputer > interface too. I am thinking about a nagging popup in case we have not been diving in more than a day to remind to set the timezone correctly on computer before syncing the time (if enabled). Or something less annoying for the incompetent people who cannot keep their timezones :D Maybe just a checkbox on the download dialog to enable this feature per DC connection - maybe even remember the setting until no-fly clears. miika
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