Re: [Celestia-developers] TimeZone format

[Chris L. <cl...@gm...>]

I personally like the acronyms. Surely there must be a way to reliably
retrieve them from the system on Windows? Wouldn't this work best for
everyone? The 'local time' setting is supposed to show the time in a more
familiar format, and at least in North America, PST looks a lot more
familiar than GMT+8.

As for whether to make it an option in celestia.cfg: it's easy to do, but
I'm concerned that adding an obscure setting to that file isn't really
addressing the problem. It's a solution that works for the small minority
that takes the time to tweak celestia.cfg, but 95+% of users will only every
see the default. This applies to a (just slightly) lesser degree to settings
that are configured via some obscure dialog box. I guess if it really is a
matter of user preference--rather than just working around an annoying
Windows idiosyncrasy--then I support having GMT+offset as an option in
celestia.cfg, with acronyms the default on all platforms. And if someone can
help me figure out what to do about the silly time zone names on Windows,
I'd appreciate it.

--Chris

On Dec 1, 2007 9:57 AM, vincent <vin...@fr...> wrote:

> Selon Toti :
>
> > I think that Pat is right. In KDE there's a configuration panel
> > where one can change the time display, among other "once in a
> > while" adjustments.
> > In GTK there's also a separate widget for this kind of setup.
> > Vincent's addition naturally fits there.
> >
> > In my opinion it would be best to provide a couple of methods in
> > CelestiaCore for changing the time format, etc. and let the
> > platform coders add the respective UI signals/slots.
>
> Half of us are for integrating the UTC+offset format while the other
> half are for a status quo. Another half of us are for adding this
> option to celestia.cfg, while the other half are for adding it in
> the platforms UI. We really are divided on this adds. So, maybe
> Chris and/or Fridger could settle the question... ;-)
>
> I personnaly agree with Selden and would prefer the celestia.cfg
> option. For those who would prefer adding it to the Windows UI,
> this could be done in the following way, though:
> http://vincent.gian.club.fr/celestia/tzformat.jpg
>
> @+
> Vincent
>
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