[Kstars-devel] [bug] KStars should use system time zone and DST data

[Aleksey Khudyakov]

On 11.01.2012 13:33, Bogdan Marinov wrote:
> Some perspective from another project:
>
> Stellarium uses this approach (getting the time from the system clock
> and storing it as JD). It works OK in the typical case, when the user
> is interested in the sky over their (computer's) current location, but
> we often get bug reports and puzzled questions from people who try to
> use it from other locations or have incorrect system time zone
> settings. (Stellarium does not offer an easy way of overriding the
> time zone.)
>
> I have volunteered to overhaul Stellarium's time zone system, though I
> haven't done anything on it so far. The idea is to implement support
> for the tzdata database and to pull updates from its ftp server. As
> Stellarium is multi-platform, I'll have to reinvent the wheel, but
> KStars is a KDE/Linux application and it can use the regularly updated
> tzdata package (if it doesn't already do so).
>
I think it has more to do with inability to override time zone. End user 
only need ability to choose location and time zone. He need not to care 
about tnternal representation as long as calculations are correct.


P.S. I'm CCing kstars-devel