[Freeswitch-users] Timezone with time conditions

[Avi Marcus]

>
> Note: The dialplan TOD conditions do not account for TZ

I think that's the point of this thread. Is there a point to re-invent the
wheel doing TOD conditions manually?

-Avi

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:
> How are you passing the timezone info to the dialplan? Are you using an
> offset? Are you using the timezone name? These are important questions. If
> you use the timezone name then the strftime_tz API command will let you
> compute the local time for the given time zone using the time zone
database,
> including any known DST values. From there it's just some basic string
> manipulation and calculations. Note: The dialplan TOD conditions do not
> account for TZ so you'd need to do your own calculations. It's completely
> doable, though, as long as there is a valid TZ name supplied somehow.
> -MC
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Avi Marcus <avi at avimarcus.net> wrote:
>>
>> The general thing is a GUI that allows users to create a time condition.
>> If you're running an ITSP, rather than a PBX for one company, then your
>> customers will likely be spanning across time zones.
>> It's one thing to normalize the times to your local time zones.. But that
>> doesn't take DST into account.
>> So basically, the best way would seem to be to pass the time zone to the
>> condition that evaluates TOD.
>> When I looked at this a while ago, I couldn't figure out how to do it..
>> -Avi
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you expand upon this question a bit? My guess is that "anything's
>>> possible" but I'd like to know more about what you're doing before
making
>>> any suggestions.
>>> -MC
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Spencer Thomason
>>> <spencer at 5ninesolutions.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> Has anyone found an elegant solution to using time conditions with
>>>> multiple locations?  For example suppose you have a multi tenant
system with
>>>> time conditions, is there any way to set the call time zone on a per
call
>>>> basis?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Spencer
>>>>
>>>>
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