[chandler-users] Fwd: Chandler doesn't register daylight saving time

[Mimi Yin]

FYI, Ingrid figured out the problem with DST in Melbourne.

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> From: Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org>
> Date: October 27, 2008 9:34:46 AM PDT
> To: Ingrid Glenn <ingrid at coolice.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [chandler-users] Chandler doesn't register daylight  
> saving time
>
> Thanks for investigating Ingrid. May I forward this to the users  
> list so others can see too? Logging a bug to track this issue as  
> well: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12424
>
> Best,
> Mimi
>
> On Oct 26, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Ingrid Glenn wrote:
>
>> Hi Mimi!
>>
>> I think I have it figured out - but only since this weekend.  We  
>> are in Melbourne, Australia, and last year they changed our  
>> daylight savings time to begin on the first Sunday in October  
>> instead of the last Sunday in October.  Microsoft picked it up  
>> okay, so the computer has changed on time since.  However, other  
>> things didn't eg. our Nokia phones didn't do the change, causing  
>> all sorts of problems for us.
>>
>> It seems to be the same problem with Chandler! It also changed  
>> it's time clock over yesterday instead of the first Sunday in  
>> October.  Because I have only had it a couple of weeks, I didn't  
>> think about this being the problem, so I couldn't figure out why  
>> the clock was always out.
>>
>> I don't know where Chandler gets its daylight savings settings  
>> from, but it looks like this is one time zone that will have to be  
>> accounted for again.
>>
>> I hope this helps!
>>
>> Ingrid
>>
>> Mimi Yin wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ingrid,
>>>
>>> This is very odd. When you say that Chandler is consistently 1  
>>> hour behind, do you mean that events and alarms fire an hour late?
>>>
>>> May I ask what time zone you have Chandler set to? You can see  
>>> the time zone in the upper right-hand corner of the calendar view.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if perhaps you have your Chandler time zone set to  
>>> something that just specifies +/- hours off Greenwich Mean Time  
>>> (GMT) versus one that is specific to a location.
>>>
>>> Oftentimes if you import your calendar from an app like Palm, the  
>>> default time zone will be set in this way.
>>>
>>> That's the most likely explanation for what you're experiencing.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Mimi
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Ingrid Glenn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there!
>>>>
>>>> Firstly, I'd like to congratulate you on a fantastic product.   
>>>> Chandler is as close to the perfect PIM for me that I can get!   
>>>> I'm so happy with it.
>>>>
>>>> However I've come across a problem, and I didn't know whether to  
>>>> add this as a bug or not (it's too confusing to tell if this has  
>>>> been logged or not), so I figured an email might be better:
>>>>
>>>> Chandler doesn't seem to recognise daylight saving time, so it  
>>>> is consistently one hour behind.  If I turn off daylight saving  
>>>> in my computer clock and adjust the time accordingly, then  
>>>> Chandler's time agrees, so that's what I've done to get around  
>>>> it.  Is there any other way to fix this problem in Chandler?
>>>>
>>>> For your information, I'm using Chandler 1.0.2 on Windows XP  
>>>> Service Pack 3.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
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