Dive planning risk due to timezone unawareness
Lutz Vieweg
lvml at 5t9.de
Wed Feb 27 12:18:46 PST 2013
On 02/27/2013 06:58 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We're basically shaving off all the timezone
> information, because none of the dive computers we have access to get
> it right anyway, and nobody really cares.
I just realized there should at least be a warning in
the manual that if Subsurface is used shortly after changing
time zones, dive planning may make significantly wrong
assumptions on the pre-existing tissue saturation of the diver.
The worst-case scenario would be a short trip over the
international date-line, if the diver correctly changes his
locale settings, and plans a dive thereafter that Subsurface
assumes to be in the past of another logged dive he actually
recently did.
Regards,
Lutz Vieweg
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