CanadaPlus comments on A truly great GPS clock would not only get the current time from the satellites, but also lookup the timezone and DST rules from using it's position.

submitted 8 months ago by xia@lemmy.ca to c/microblogish@lemmy.sdf.org

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...though it would still need a UTC/override switch, as the rules and zones may change over time.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mandatory any time someone talks about "just" accounting for timezone:

Although the work has already been done out of necessity and put in libraries, so you could still do this.