Hi Andreas and Ian,

Again, why would anyone use a structure of three elements that is also never 
correct if the daylight saving is changed in a country like it has been done 
currently for Australia? The zone ID is all you need, see javadocs to TimeZone!

- Jörg

Andreas Guther wrote on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:36 PM:

> Ian,
> 
> I believe changing the timezone element to a complex element
> in the way
> you suggest is an excellent idea.  I have filed an enhancement
> request quoting your email: 
> 
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2202
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
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> Note that the observation of Summertime/Daylight Savings Time does not
> change the timezone where a developer resides.
> 
> Instead of changing everybody's timezone twice a year, I
> would recommend
> making the timezone element its own complex type, more inline with
> the java.util.TimeZone class: 
> 
> <timezone>
>       <name>Eastern</name>
>       <offset>-5</offset>
>       <useDaylight>true</useDaylight>
> </timezone>
> 
> It's better to be hated for who you are
> than loved for who you are not
> 
> Ian D. Stewart
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way in Maven to adjust the TimeZone element in the
> pom.xml to
> daylight savings time?
> 
> We have an international team and I like the fact that we can
> see on the
> maven generated web site's team list what time it is for a specific
> developer.  What I am missing is the automatic adjustment for example
> for my time zone which is in winter times -8 and in summer times -7. 
> I just made a global search and replace in my pom.xml but actually
> it would be
> more convenient maven could do that for me.
> 
> Is there anything that helps me solving the problem or is
> this worth an
> enhancement request?
> 
> Andreas
> 
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