Question about way of adding timezones support to clock

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 14:44:58 CET 2008


2008/3/17, Christopher Blauvelt <cblauvelt at gmail.com>:
> > This would need to be fixed in the DataEngine then. The way I understand
> it,
> > the dataengine should bundle such requests (we don't want one wakeup per
> > timezone per second / minute, but one per second / minute, telling us the
> > time in all the timezones we've connected to.
> >
>
> Is it possible to get the time in UTC and  use the timezone facilities to
> figure out the difference? Then we would still be able to have only one
> wake-up.

This is possible and very similar to my idea. I just wanted to use
"Local" instead "UTC". You still have to use sth to get time in other
timezones just like I wanted to.


I reported this as bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159464

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Rafał Miłecki


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