Treat backwards-going timestamp as a day change. Not perfect if the clocks change...

[ypp-sc-tools.db-test.git] / yoweb-scrape.txt

diff --git a/yoweb-scrape.txt b/yoweb-scrape.txt
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@@ -73,6 +73,14 @@ Other things to mention:
  * I haven't decided on a final copyright licence.  You may treat this
    version as GPLv3.
 
  * I haven't decided on a final copyright licence.  You may treat this
    version as GPLv3.
 

+ * The program will become confused when the clocks change,
+   particularly when they go backwards.  This is due to the chat log
+   containing timestamps in local time without a timezone.  If this
+   bothers you, make everything be in UTC.  If it does get confused,
+   you can fix it by logging off and logging on again (perhaps waiting
+   until after the duplicated hour has passed) as that writes a new
+   date record to the log and starts a new series of timestamps.
+

 Ian.
 
 
 Ian.