Re: Country specific add-on package
Helge Hess <[email protected]>
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On Aug 26, 2004, at 12:14, Helge Hess wrote: > If your country doesn't have a specified timezone, you need to > workaround by using GMTxxx. I don't know why Brazil does that, but it > results in inconvinience for the user. > The technically correct way to make calendaring systems work in this > setup, is to make a _new_ timezone (America/Brazil) with _all_ the > historical data. Eg OGo needs to know how it was all the years back, > otherwise you can't properly browse into the past. > In addition - without DST information you can't create cyclic > appointments which go into the future. BTW: to get back to the initial question. The above still does not belong into a country specific pack, because the information is required in all setups. (if I want to meet you in Brazil I need to be able to switch my calendar to Brazil time and select a proper time) Greets, Helge -- http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/helge/ OpenGroupware.org -- OpenGroupware.org Discussion [email protected] http://mail.opengroupware.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss