[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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