[RFD] divecomputer time/date synchronization while downloading dives

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Wed Jul 19 21:07:29 PDT 2017


On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> How about when you tap the button / check the box that enables time since,
> we open a pop-up with the current time and ask the user to confirm?
> Yeah, I know. Pop-ups are evil. But this does seem like one of those cases
> where maybe it's worth it? Because I like the time sync idea.

The problem is that we don't even have an interface into
libdivecomputer to even say this, and this is all inside
libdivecomputer. So no popups, no nothing. We're deep in a library,
with no way to ask the user at that point.

                Linus


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