[Kde-pim] Does local time zone need a name?

[David Jarvie]

On Wednesday 4 April 2007 2:55, mark at easymailings.com wrote:
>
> Were you saying that an invite needs a timezone name as well as the the
> actual timezone definition?  I rarely use invitations, but if an
> invitation had the timezone definition and no name, wouldn't that be
> enough for the receipients calendar program to make sense of it?

The time zone definition should still work, but you'd have difficulty
displaying a meaningful time zone identification to the user. You could of
course convert it to the user's current time zone, but I don't think that
that's entirely satisfactory.

> As to original point of that thread, in general I am leery of using
> daemons as they are hard to write in a secure manner (although I assume
> kded has been audited pretty heavily) and are a lot more complex than
> file-based storage.  The motivation for using kded was
> performance--did you do any profiling?

I didn't do any profiling myself. It depends on the system and locale as
to whether identifying the local time zone name takes any significant
processing. In the worst case it could involve reading 400+ time zone
files. Not something that could be contemplated at every startup of any
application which uses time zone information.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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