Re: Garmin 96C - Daylight saving time error!

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:30:24 -0000, "David Lee"
<davidlee_malvern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>kashe@xxxxxxxxx wrote ...
>>>PHC> Additionally, the GPS will assume that the rules for DST changes
>>>PHC> will be constant unless updated by firmware. Those rules
>>>PHC> (covering what days the changes back and forth) change be
>>>PHC> changed by governing bodies.
>>>PHC>
>>>
>>>As true as that statement is, it is molly***.
>>>
>>>As much as I hate Windoze, their OS has enough "intelligance" (cough)
>>>to know when the daylight saving times come in.
>>
>> Windows has no idea what's going on in e.g. Indiana, Arizona,
>> etc. It's only capable of calculating the appropriate date and making
>> a gross change. Why do you think it tells you what it's done and then
>> tells you to check for yourself if it's right?
>
>That's rubbish!

Explain exactly why it's rubbish or retract your baseless
assertion. With an apology for your rudeness.

> Dates for advancing and retarding the clock are fixed for
>any given country. If they weren't then there would be potential accounting
>nightmares each time the country's clocks changed. The majority of
>countries in the northern hemisphere change their clocks on the last Sundays
>in March and October although DST commences on the first Sunday in April in
>North America (except for Hawaii and Arizona which don't observe DST -
>although the Navajo parts of Arizona do). There are other exceptions but it
>only requires a small lookup table.

Perhaps, but it's not implemented. Please provide such to
describe in detail, including all required coordinates, following
county lines, the scheme for Indiana, where different counties have
different observance of DST

> Windows never asks me to confirm
>daylight saving time changes and these are also handled correctly (at least
>for me in the UK) by my Garmin etrex and Vista receivers.

My windows (both XT and XT Media Center) do so.

>
>David
>

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