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Originally posted by EvilDragon
perhaps not even necessary to input timezone and/or DST - just an option to type in the OFFSET from YOUR system clock time.
And you know by heart at which day of the year the DST is enabled or disabled for all your individual contacts? Because otherwise this is exactly what I've said in my previous post: setting an offset is very very very, thus very
, inaccurate and insufficient. And I'm not talking about exotic places here at all though.
For example: I do not know by heart at which day DST gets enabled/disabled in Quebec, Seattle, Chili, etc, all I know is that it is at a different days than in most of Europe. So setting an offset for those common contacts isn't accurate (unless I keep track myself of these DST rules around the world and make sure that offset is changed accordingly at the proper times; which I'm obviously not going to do)...
Unless you can get the system time from the contact themselfs in one way or the other, the only good and accurate way is to select a region or if you will a 'nearest' city (not a timezone!!) for those contacts and let the script/tool/plugin deal with the DST rules (script looks up the region/city in an online database each day and gets the current UCT time offset from there - such databases exist).
It would be so cool if this gets implemented in Windows Live Messenger itself though... I'm even wondering why it hasn't already. Seems like basic information for an IM tool.... /me slaps MS
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