Re: Garmin 96C - Daylight saving time error!

kashe@xxxxxxxxx wrote...
>>That's rubbish!
>

Ooh! What a touchy little girl!

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

Certainly not!

>> 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

Well there's no accounting for state sponsored stupidity! However even I,
as an Englishman, know that a law was passed last April implementing DST
statewide in Indiana starting from next April - the only issue then remains
where the boundary between Eastern and Central timezones runs.

Anyway it's your own fault if you can't set up Windows correctly for your
own location since I would expect you to know what time it is and hence
which timezone you are in! It would be totally pointless, confusing and a
waste of effort to list options for every single state of country - better
to list standard timezones and exceptions where DST is handled differently
from the norm. For Indiana Windows gives you the option of Central or
Eastern time (with or without automatic daylight saving) or Indiana (East) -
with daylight saving totally disabled. Likewise for Hawaii and Arizona
Windows "knows" that daylight saving is not used. I assume that for the
Navajo regions of Arizona you would select Mountain Time (ie GMT -7 with
Daylight Saving).

>> 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.

I have never been prompted to accept daylight saving by any version of
Windows. However I always have "Automatically adjust clock for daylight
saving changes" selected and have never tried running with this option
deselected. It may be that if you haven't selected "Auto" you will be
prompted for the change - otherwise I can't see the point of having special
cases for places such as Indiana where the Auto option is disabled - you
would simply select the relevant timezone and disable automatic correction.

David


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