2007 DST Change

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> taharka wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 22:56 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>
>>>> I really don't care. I don't observe DST anyway, and would prefer
>>>> that the machine not change the time it displays. I don't change
>>>> my clocks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Question, will this non-observance be reflected in sent emails/calender
>>> software, etc when the change goes into effect?
>>
>>
>> I don't understand why you would care what time/date etc. are
>> on my e-mails. But, if you will look carefully at the information
>> on e-mails, you'll see that they use GMT anyway, along with
>> an offset.
> 
> 
> Most of the business world revolves around meetings and conference calls 
> scheduled with calendar entries sent by email.  These are automatically 

I am aware of this.

> converted to the recipient's local time and may include alarms that pop 
> up ahead of time.  As I understand it, outlook does the adjustment when 

As I stated, the time is given in GMT along with an offset. So,
who cares how my system displays its local time?

[snip]

> sort-of interoperate) has a similar issue.  But anyway, don't 
> underestimate the importance of being able to schedule things correctly 
> across timezones - and expect a lot of screwups from people who rely on 
> those popup alarms.

This is not affected by how I have my local time display set up.

Mike
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