Daylight Saving

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(03-30-2014 05:48 PM)ColinJDenman Wrote:  Should the Prime be able to implement a DST correction ;-) (And if so, for what location!)

There are so many possible DST corrections (zone, date, location) ... I'd first suggest a simple "DSTahead: add DST-offset to current time" and "DSTback: subtract DST-offset from current time" where DST-offset is a user global set by the user. DSTahead and DSTback would be executed by the user. (At the moment, I believe the possible values would be 0, 60, 90, or 120 minutes, but I haven't looked recently.)

Time zone changes are also possible and a further mess. While there are 24 obvious time zones, in practice there are more, not all of which are an integer number of hours from UTC.

If you want, then something much more complex could be coded, the Wikipedia article on Daylight Savings Time has the beginnings of the details.

Not trying to discourage you, just how complicated the task is!