animated backgrounds

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 22:15 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:

> 
> Hey, that sounds interesting, we could even make some svg based
> wallpapers this way, I am however not sure what the starttime means, and
> how it will work for different time zones? If I understand correctly the
> starttime is time in seconds since some event in past (unix epoch). But
> it would then mean, that if I set the start time to be 0 hour of some
> day in US, it will be 12 hour on the opposite side of the Earth and as a
> result I will have day at night and night at day in Europe.
> 

Good point. 
I guess we need to add support for timezone-relative start times.