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  • Feature request

    From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to All on Sun Jun 19 10:28:54 2022

    In order to make it easier for nodelist clerks to synchronise their efforts across time zones, I suggest the following;


    UseUTC (0/1) (default 0)


    This instructs MakeNl to use UTC instead of local time to determine the day of the week and other time related issues.

    E.G. When it is Thursday 21:00 local time and it is Friday 01:00 UTC, Makenl will act as if is is run on Friday and use the day number corresponding to Friday.


    In some cases, it may be necessary to override the OS's and/or compiler's time functions. So I suggest the following option:


    UseTZUTC (0/1) (default 0)

    Use the TZUTC environment variable to derive UTC from local time, instead of using the value supplied by the OS and/or the compiler's library functions.


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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Michiel van der Vlist on Sun Jun 19 16:00:26 2022
    Michiel,

    In order to make it easier for nodelist clerks to synchronise their
    efforts across time zones, I suggest the following;

    Really?

    I don't see how this (old) proposal is going to change anything. I also don't understand what needs to be synchronized at all. There will always be a 7hr delay for Z1-data in Z2, plus every ZC to my knowledge uses the latest zone-segments available ... there's no way on improving on that.

    \%/@rd

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