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JRS:  In article <Wclm2HA2a2O2EwyY@ubik.demon.co.uk> of Sat, 31 Oct 1998
19:36:22 in demon.service, Anthony Naggs <amn@ubik.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <abmK6DBI6iO2Ewzh@merlyn.demon.co.uk>, Dr John Stockton
><jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote
>[Windows 95 changing from BST to GMT at 3am BST]
>>
>>According to my <URL: http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/uksumtim.htm>,
>>Europe changes, forward and back, at 0100 hours GMT; 
>
>So "W.Europe" and "Romance" times used by Windows 95 correctly change at
>3am from summer to winter and 2am from winter to summer?  (=> 2am BST &
>1 am GMT respectively.)
>
>>but the USA changes
>>(* predominantly *) at 0200 hours local Winter time.
>>
>>IMHO one is lucky if Windows gets the date right; to expect the time to
>>be right too ...
>
>I propose, here & now, to write a fix for this.  For which I'd like some
>help:
>+   One person to mail me the timezone definitions for Unix, for 
>    reference.

Setting FU to poster (overridden) will not help achieve this singularity.
XP d.s,d.tech.pc,uk.tech.y2k, FU uty2k,dtp only.

>+   A volunteer to check the timezone definitions on Windows NT 5.  (I
>    have an NT4 system and a Win 98 system that I shall check.)
>+   I could split the UK from Portugal & Ireland, so that the summertime
>    name can be "BST British Summer Time".  But what are the equivalent
>    names for Ireland & Portugal?

+   You could split the UK & Ireland from Portugal, so that the summertime
    name can be "BST British Isles Summer Time"?

The present scheme in Windows is designed for idiots, by Americans.

Would it not be better, seeing as only the sagacious will use your
software, to input the data more directly?

Radio buttons for Hemisphere (Northern / Equatorial (no DST) / Southern)
TZ number, with examples - say UK 12, Winnipeg 6, Delhi 17�, Tokyo 21
if N/S, Dates (Select Two): 
    Last  Sun Mar
    First Sun Apr
    Last  Sun Oct
    <any others that you (AN) know of>
        Other : 
        Other :
(Others being box or buttons, depending on what unknown rules seem likely)
Winter Time of Change ... GMT/Local

If feeling generous, defaults for UK, most of EU, most of NA could be
provided.       
 
-- 
John Stockton, Surrey, UK.    jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk    Turnpike v4.00    MIME.
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