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> Britain uses GMT. Which Outlook in particular seems to get direly wrong. I have lost count of the number of times I have been sent an email from someone usin
by mnw21cam 4y ago
> Britain uses GMT.
Which Outlook in particular seems to get direly wrong. I have lost count of the number of times I have been sent an email from someone using Outlook containing a supposed calendar event in summer which declares that it is at a particular time GMT. It's wrong, and if I were to turn up at the time it stated, I would be an hour late.
- r00fus 4y agoBritain uses GMT only during winter. In summer it's BST (British Summer Time). The fact that calendar clients can't determine a timezone for a given jurisdiction on a given day is actually something that I hate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
- NateEag 4y agoI have never had an opportunity to deploy this tool, but here's a program for generating a TZ shapefile from OpenStreetMap data: https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder In principle a calendar program could use its output to perform GIS lookups of locations then use the tzinfo DB to get the correct timezone at the given location and specified time.