#256 Time display in slit does not handle time decrements

[David H. Gutteridge]

Hello,

I've been using blackbox for a while now (thanks, by
the way), and a minor flaw I've been meaning to mention
is that the time display in the slit doesn't handle
time/date changes backwards. So for instance, when
daylight savings time ends in the fall and clocks move
back an hour, the display doesn't register the change,
because the code for it assumes time only progresses
forward (or so I've understood from looking at the 0.65
source).

I tried out your release candidate for 0.70, and
noticed this is still a problem. (Incidentally, in
case anyone's interested, I compiled it successfully on
Debian 3.0r4 running on HP PA-RISC hardware with gcc
3.0.4, and on NetBSD 2.0 running on x86 hardware with
gcc 3.3.3.)

If I have a chance, I'll have a closer look at the 0.70
source, and see if I can suggest a patch, I'd guess it
should be trivial, but I don't know, maybe not.

Regards,

Dave

[Bradley T. Hughes]

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indeed... this is mostly due to the fact that interval timers
have to remember when they were started... and if the clock
changes, well, then we have to wait a long time until the
timer fires

i will see if there is anything i can do about this, but it might
take me a while

[Bradley T. Hughes]

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i just put the fix for this into CVS, it'll be in the next release :)