Re: Patching GS/OS for the new daylight savings time

["roughana" <andrew.roughan@writeme.com>]

On Mar 13, 6:02 pm, "roughana" <andrew.roug...@writeme.com> wrote:
> On Mar 12, 7:25 pm, SlickRCBD <slickr...@nospam.com> wrote:
> > Has anybody created a patch that can be used on GS/OS 6.0.1 to make the
> > automatic daylight savings time option in the Control Panel work with
> > the new dates? If so, where can I find it?
>
> In my view, it would be great to see any such 'patch' future-proofed
> and internationalised.
>
> Perhaps the Timezone control panel can be extended to have manual
> entry fields for DST start & end date/time?

Actually, Geoff Weiss released the source code to the Timezone control
panel/tool56 and noted that support for DST was a needed enhancement.

Any takers?

I wrote to Geoff about this topic and he offered the following:
I'd recommend that the control panel replace its entire structure and
use
the official NIST time zone information (compiled or uncompiled).
That
way, the time zone (and daylight saving) information can be routinely
updated based on the industry supported NIST data.

Geoff indicated that he's not interested in updating the Timezone
control panel/tool56 himself.

Cheers,
Andrew