Dive planning risk due to timezone unawareness

[Dirk Hohndel]

Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> writes:

> 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.

That seems like a rather artificial scenario as you're not supposed to
fly for 24h after a dive, anyway. It's not something I'll lose sleep
over.

/D