On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Damir Buskulic wrote: > Hi, > > I just came accross a problem in the display of time dependent data. It > appears that the time offset on the various axis is expressed in local > time (function localtime()). When one sends time dependent data to > colleagues overseas, the time considered by the axis will be their > localtime, not the one at the source, hence shifted by a few hours. > > In any case, it seems to me that one should use the gmtime() function > to strictly use and display UTC time. Of course, this means a shift by > a few hours in the data, but this time will be the same all around the > world. > Perhaps should we introduce a SetTimeOffsetUTC() ? In that case, the > string representing the time offset (after the %F for the experts...) > should probably note it with a "UTC" somewhere. May be an option in the existing function SetTimeOffset would work if it has a default value equal to "local". O. -- Org: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23 - Switzerland Mailbox: J25910 E-Mail: Olivier.Couet@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7676522 WWW: http://cern.ch/Olivier.Couet/ Fax: +41 22 7677155
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