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From: Mike Schilling on 3 Nov 2009 20:38 Arne Vajh�j wrote: > Mike Schilling wrote: >> Arne Vajh�j wrote: >>> I don't know what Outlook does, but it does not always work well >> >> Very true. >> >>> for a reoccurring meeting scheduled over DST changes. >> >> Arne, there was some uneeded text at the end of your post. > > For this particular topic that is the relevant occasion. > > BTW, in general I am not unhappy with it - it mostly works. For the use I make of it (to add calendar item manually), it's fine. A few years ago, when I was briefly working at a place that would mail out meeting invitations with calendar attachments that would automatically enter themselves, any meeting change was invariably followed up by five or six more changes, each attempting to undo the previous change and make the desired change properly. Since the person making the changes wasn't an idiot, I concluded that it doesn't work very well.
From: Dr J R Stockton on 4 Nov 2009 12:52
In comp.lang.java.programmer message <hcq7k8$cta$1(a)news.eternal- september.org>, Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:33:56, Mike Schilling <mscottschilling(a)hotmail.com> posted: >Dr J R Stockton wrote: >> In the Northern Hemisphere, the vast majority of places which change >> their clocks have chosen to do so on the last Sundays of March and >> October : In Europe, all but the Far East do it at 01:00 UTC, and in >> Asia all outside the Middle East change on the same dates but at a >> fixed local time. > >Many don't change their times at all, which causes a discrepency with those >that do. I am there referring, as can easily be seen, only to places which do not change their clocks. Those which do not change have a fixed offset from GMT. You should not be confused about when they change their clocks. You should know when you change your own clocks, and you should know the difference between your time(s) and GMT. So it should be perfectly easy for you to work out the difference between your time and that of, say, Reykjavik (BTW, their rules are likely to change soon, but they may not yet have realised it). -- (c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v6.05. Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms PAS EXE etc : <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/> - see 00index.htm Dates - miscdate.htm estrdate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc. |