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Here in the UK we put clocks forward a week ago, which resulted in much tearing out of hair at work on Monday.
Why? In their infinite wisdom Macromedia's programmers decided making Flash talk to the OS to work out daylight-saving time properly was far too sensible. Instead the Flash player seemingly assumes everyone's synchronised with the US, so the clock screensavers we've just completed will be out by an hour in the UK for two weeks of the year and wrong for half the year in places with no daylight-saving time. We may have to put the whole thing into Director (assuming that can tell the time correctly) or see if it's fixed in Flash MX.
Nice work Macromedia.
Posted by Matt Round @ 04/07/2002 12:38 PM EST
Here in the UK we put clocks forward a week ago, which resulted in much tearing out of hair at work on Monday.
Why? In their infinite wisdom Macromedia's programmers decided making Flash talk to the OS to work out daylight-saving time properly was far too sensible. Instead the Flash player seemingly assumes everyone's synchronised with the US, so the clock screensavers we've just completed will be out by an hour in the UK for two weeks of the year and wrong for half the year in places with no daylight-saving time. We may have to put the whole thing into Director (assuming that can tell the time correctly) or see if it's fixed in Flash MX.
Nice work Macromedia.
Posted by Matt Round @ 04/07/2002 12:38 PM EST