On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:11 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> Another interesting aspect of timezone changes is what along running
> application should do, once we have the time corrected. Consider a graph of
> the last 7 days’ rainfall with an X axis labelled by the hour.  Should the
> labels be redrawn with the revised TZ? Or the old ones kept as-was and only
> new ones changed?  Does it make more sense to see
> 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 12:00 1:00
>

08:00[GMT-8]
09:00[GMT-8]
10:00[GMT-8]
11:00[GMT-8]
12:00[GMT-8]
12:00[GMT-9]
01:00[GMT-9]
or more succinctly...
08:00[-8]
09:00[-8]
10:00[-8]
11:00[-8]
12:00[-8]
12:00[-9]
01:00[-9]

cheers -ben
Pragmatic engineering:  If you can't solve the problem, change the problem.




> ie with the change visible, rather than all the older data getting
> changed? I really can't decide, so if anyone knows of UI/perceptual psych
> work offering a good rationale I’d be interested.
>
> tim
> --
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> A)bort, R)etry, I)gnore, V)alium?
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