Re: [Slashcode-development] Timezone under Bender

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

Sorry to reply to this after a long time. But I needed to look into the
code and also separate Slash problems from bugs on my platform (Digital
Unix) regarding timezones.

Patrick Galbraith wrote:

> the whole reason  behind using GMT is that a slash site can have users
> around the world who can have their own time preferences.

Yes, I perfectly realize that (which is my requirement, BTW). The point
is that this places a burden on the system setup where it should belong
to the application logic, either in the code itself or the database
connection.

I cannot run my machines on GMT (I don't have a separate box for Slash)
and putting a TZ=GMT on safe_mysqld doesn't seem to work. But both of
these things affect other software, so why cannot Slash play it nice and
do the proper calculations?

I found a fix that seems to work for Slash 1.0.9, in Slash.pm I use
Time::Zone and call once tz_local_offset and store it. Then I
recalculate $I{timezones} taking care of this local offset. The only
problem I see is that when DST jumps in you can have uncorrect answers
because the cached tz_local_offset has been calculated before the
change.

it's very simple, I've uploaded it Sourceforge:
<http://sourceforge.net/patch/download.php?id=103482>

I am looking at the Bender sourcecode for something similar.

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