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Allthough most dive computers always use local time and don't support timezones at all, there are a few exceptions. There are two different sources of timezone information: - Some of the newer Uwatec/Scubapro devices use UTC internally and also support a timezone setting. This UTC offset is currently taken into account to obtain the dive date/time, but the UTC offset itself is lost. - Uwatec/Scubapro and Reefnet devices rely on the clock of the host system to synchronize the internal device clock and calculate the dive date/time. The consequence is that the resulting date/time is always in the timezone of the host system. In order to preserve this timezone information, the dc_datetime_t structure is extended with a new "timezone" field, containing the UTC offset in seconds. Devices without timezone support will set the field to the special value DC_TIMEZONE_NONE. The dc_datetime_localtime() and dc_datetime_gmtime() functions will automatically populate the new field with respectively the local timezone offset and zero. The dc_datetime_mktime() function will take into account the new timezone field for the conversion to UTC. The special value DC_TIMEZONE_NONE is interpreted as zero.
Overview ======== Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers. The official web site is: http://www.libdivecomputer.org/ The sourceforge project page is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdivecomputer/ Installation ============ On UNIX-like systems (including Linux, Mac OS X, MinGW), use the autotools based build system. Run the following commands from the top directory (containing this file) to configure, build and install the library and utilities: $ ./configure $ make $ make install If you downloaded the libdivecomputer source code directly from the git source code repository, then you need to create the configure script as the first step: $ autoreconf --install To uninstall libdivecomputer again, run: $ make uninstall Support ======= Please send bug reports, feedback or questions to the mailing list: http://libdivecomputer.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel or contact me directly: jef@libdivecomputer.org License ======= Libdivecomputer is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.