<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Sorry for top post.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">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?<br></div>
<div dir="auto">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.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">There is one flaw, though, now that I think about it. Usually you download your dives after a day of diving. They may not be the best time to adjust the time zone...<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">/D<br><br></div>
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<b>From:</b> Miika Turkia <miika.turkia@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wed Jul 19 20:45:03 PDT 2017<br>
<b>To:</b> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Subsurface Mailing List <subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org>, Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>, Jef Driesen <jef@libdivecomputer.org>, devel <devel@libdivecomputer.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RFD] divecomputer time/date synchronization while downloading dives<br>
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<pre class="blue">On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Linus Torvalds<br><torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> Anyway, what this all builds up to is that I'd actually like to just<br> set the time automatically when I connect the dive computer to my<br> laptop (or my cellphone, for that matter - usually those end up being<br> synchronized to the local time quite nicely).<br></blockquote><br>I do like the idea, but I am hesitant about syncing the time with<br>laptop automatically. That is because it usually takes a few days for<br>me to update my timezone. Even with the manual time sync, it has<br>happened to me once that I synced wrong time to my DC. Also with my<br>tablet, there is no automatic timezone changes so the mobile version<br>might also be missing the correct time.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> But I suspect people will hate that patch because it does that time<br> sync thing *unconditionally*. It would be good to have a check-box and<br> some way to actually set the "sync time" flag. But for that to happen,<br> we'd need not just the UI side, we'd need to have the libdivecomputer<br> interface too.<br></blockquote><br>I am thinking about a nagging popup in case we have not been diving in<br>more than a day to remind to set the timezone correctly on computer<br>before syncing the time (if enabled). Or something less annoying for<br>the incompetent people who cannot keep their timezones :D Maybe just a<br>checkbox on the download dialog to enable this feature per DC<br>connection - maybe even remember the setting until no-fly clears.<br><br>miika<br></pre></body></html>