To: geoff
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:09:47 -0600, geoff wrote:
Please don't consider using the TimeZone CDEV that I wrote ten years ago. It
is way too hard to attempt to expand it for modern time zone data. Most OS
vendors get their time zone data from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ so it makes
sense for the Apple IIgs to use the same data. I recommend scrapping the
TimeZone CDEV completely.
Well, I wasn't actually going to use your actual TimeZone CDEV but write
similar functionality into a replacement Time CDEV. :-)
This means that the Time Tool would also need to be
updated to handle the time zone format changes.
I hadn't thought about the Time Tool but that shouldn't be too hard to
update either.
It would be really clever if the latest tzdata file can be identified and
downloaded automatically so the developer wouldn't have to generate new
releases ten or so times a year (that assumes that the tzdata format doesn't
require a new parser). One should review the tzcode and look at that
feasibility.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm slowly getting back to developing on my
IIgs again and if I can finish the project I'm working on now, I'll look
into the tzdata format because this sounds like an interesting project.