Subj : JS Object save_msg()
To   : Digital Man
From : deon
Date : Thu Dec 19 2024 00:58:17

  Re: JS Object save_msg()
  By: Digital Man to deon on Tue Dec 17 2024 10:57 pm

Howdy,

 >  > Can you always get the timezone from the OS?

 > Could, yes, but prefer to give the sysop the option to be more specific.

 >  > Why have a configured timezone at all?

 > Explained above.

OK, fair enough. I guess I dont understand why a sysop would configure their OS timezone different to their BBS timezone.

If they didnt have access to the OS configuration, then fair enough, but I would have thought that was a pretty rare/remote case - and in that case setting that scfg...Local Time Zone setting could be used to display the times in that timezone they wanted.

 > Your message came here as posted on:
 > "Wed Dec 18 2024 05:14 pm AEDT (30 minutes ago)"

 > If we only used "what the OS returns", your message would have been posted
 > on: "Wed Dec 18 2024 05:14 pm +11:00 (30 minutes ago)"

Personally, I prefer the later. Its pretty absolute, where some folks may not know what AEDT/ACST/ACDT are.

Anyway, while the OS might just give you the timezone UTC offset, a quick parse of /etc/localtime (on linux and mac at least) would give you the timezone string as well. Dont know if that is at all possible on Win.

Personally I think that's better than a scenario where the time or time_t value is forced to a timezone that makes the usage of that value untrue. <shrug>


....лоеп

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