"Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes" option

[soap]

Isn't it simple to just implement a summer time sheduler, so that it just adds 1 hour when switching to the summer time, and substracts 1 hour for the winter time.

When does summer time start and end?

[JdGordon]

we *could* put in a very system where the user can set it... but thats more work than its worth

[Llorean]

Haven't we established that we could just use an existing database?

[JdGordon]

no because we'd have to keep it updated

[Chronon]

A database like this?

[peter_s_d]

You guys are making this far too complex.  (Worldwide databases of all timezones, northern and southern hemispheres accounting for ever changing local laws is very involved.) 

How about automatically syncing RockBox's clock to the computer's clock when you plug it in? 

If someone can't sort out their computer's clock they weren't going to get Rockbox's clock right anyway. 

[Llorean]

That requires something running on the PC-side to do the clock setting, and a player that can communicate with the host beyond basic UMS.

I don't really see how that's better than letting the player handle it on its own with a properly set up database, since it'd only be workable for a subset of players, and only if the computer owners ran (or kept running) a program designed to update the DAP's clock.

[rasher]

Honestly I think this is far more work that it's worth. We'd have to track tzdata updates, and include it in every download. I don't know how much we could cut away (probably a good chunk), but the tzdata package on my Debian system is 6MB. For targets with software USB we could use the iPod's time syncing feature, and hope someone would be willing to create a small utility to do this automatically.