[sldev] Potential timezone problem in Viewer optimization patch.

Boroondas Gupte sllists at boroon.dasgupta.ch
Tue Apr 1 16:11:55 PDT 2008


Speedup looks good, but there might be severe issues with usage within 
other timezones:
> +++ linden/indra/newview/llappviewer.cpp	2008-04-01 18:18:01.555003737 -0400
It is to note that the dates used aren't always fully portable between 
timezones. E.g. here, in central Europe (UTC+2, due to DST) the whole 
thing is some 22 minutes late, which of course fully eats up all the 
otherwise much appreciated lag reduction. It's probably still quite 
useful for SL Residents located more west-wards, so I guess everyone 
should have a look at this patch and try it, to see if their specific 
timezone would be compatible.

Of course I don't know the code running on the servers, but as their 
physical location is much better determined at compile time, a similar 
approach might be even more useful there than with the viewer. Though, 
that would have to happen rather soon now, or we'll have to wait for 
another year to see those potentially huge benefits.

cheers
Boroondas


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