WISH LIST - Time Zone direction tweak

[Jim Eshelman]

Good-morning, Mike. I have a tiny request. (Not high priority but worth mentioning, probably easy to implement.)

As you know, in calculating a new chart, the db you use for the Find button only has time zone information after a certain date (I think you said it was 1980). Before that, we have to add time zone info manually.

One place where I've made several mistakes (and had to go back and correct them) is for correct time zone direction for eastern longitude locations. I just forget to click East on the TZ Corr field (until I see the chart is wrong and go back and fix it). How about this tweak (after the processes triggered by Find) for places where the db can't provide time zone info:

• If geographic longitude is East
• AND Time Zone is blank
• THEN leave TZ Corr fields blank but set the toggle to East instead of West

[mikestar13]

That is quite simple. When the user chooses a direction for longitude but the time zone is blank, the time zone will be automatically set to the same direction, but the user can override this for the case when the longitude is West and the Time Zone is East or vice versa. The former is actually normal during British Summer Time (the equivalent of US DST) for locations west of Greenwich. The longitude is west, but the time zone correction is for 1 hour east. I know of no actual examples of the opposite case but they may exist near the 180th meridian. It will take a single line of code, consider it done.