Daylight Saving Time in user cp

[strangerstill]

We've just put the clocks forward for British Summer Time (GMT+1h) and while I'm quite impressed with the number of electronic gadgets that have put themselves forward (my PC, my mobile, my PDA) I've noted that TechIMO has stayed on straight GMT!

Rather than get the site to do it automatically - which would be nasty to program and prone to mistakes - and rather than me having to pretend I'm on Central European Time - how about a 'Daylight Saving' checkbox in the User Options control panel that we get to tick/untick twice a year?

That is if you actually have daylight saving in the States (hey, I don't know!) - otherwise there'd be not much point I guess...

[DutchMaster]

OMG you're right. Same problem here:
All times are GMT +1 hour. The time now is 12:59 AM.
Its actually 1:59 AM already!!

[Speed]

There was a time change???? When??

[Speed]

Ahhh, I looked it up, I changes next Sunday for us. The first Sunday of April. In SPRING it springs foward and in FALL it falls back.

Never really thought about it.

[DutchMaster]

Ah found a "solution":
You could set the time offset to another timezone to "solve" this problem here: http://www.techimo.com/forum/member....on=editoptions

BTW I didn't knew the summertime in the UK starts on the same day as on the Continent. Guess they changed it to make it more universal.

[DutchMaster]

Originally posted by Speed
Ahhh, I looked it up, I changes next Sunday for us. The first Sunday of April. In SPRING it springs foward and in FALL it falls back.

Never really thought about it.

So next week the time will be right?

[strangerstill]

I'd call it a workaround rather than a solution - I'm using it now, but it's just not that elegant...

[DutchMaster]

Yeah was using the " " already.

BTW WinXP doesn't say it changed to summertime. Win95/98 always asked!!

WinXP doesn't seem very polite compared to the others. Not sure if winNT4 asked either (I had to reinstall it to fix a networking prob which IE5.5 gave me - naughty ).

Does anyone know if win2K let's you know it changed?

It's probably all part of the Billy Plan for "invisible computing"

[DutchMaster]

Originally posted by DutchMaster
Ah found a "solution":
You could set the time offset to another timezone to "solve" this problem here: http://www.techimo.com/forum/member....on=editoptions

BTW I didn't knew the summertime in the UK starts on the same day as on the Continent. Guess they changed it to make it more universal.

Forgot to put it back
The time is correct again for the right zone