Re: DST patch

["geoff" <geoff@a2central.com.remove-5kd-this>]

  To: Jeff Blakeney
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.  This means that the Time Tool would also need to be 
updated to handle the time zone format changes.

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.

Geoff

 > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 22:19:42 -0800, mojoehand wrote:

 > > By any chance, is there a DST patch for GS/OS 6.01? If not, does
 > > anyone know how to manually patch this? This is not a critical need,
 > > but it is annoying.
 > 
 > No, not at this time.  It is one of the many projects on my list of
 > stuff to write for the IIgs.  Basically it would just be a replacement Time 
 > CDEV but I think I'd like to incorporate Geoff Weiss' TimeZone CDEV and 
 > Mike Gooding's Time Master application so that it can be used to set your 
 > time zone and automatically update your clock if you have a
 > Marinetti connection to the internet.