I've been a huge fan of DNN for many years but something really needs to be done to accommodate daylight savings. I realize it's a sour subject and it's riddled with issues but please don't ignore it. The first thing that everyone says is, it's not standardized on who will participate and even what time of the year it changes. Ok fine, but there are ways to keep the time more accurate. Right now, DNN is worse than the VCR when it comes to this. This is because there is no ability at all for changing it at all. Why not? Enough of the complaining let's see what could be done.

So, if you look at trying to improve this there are going to have to be some serious changes. When I first started trying to fix my system I thought, when I look at the TZ editor, I could solve my issue with the ability to change the actual offset. Well, maybe if I spent a lot of time figuring out who and so forth. The problem with that is the how the value is stored. It's not like the permissions table. The offset of the portal and a user is stored as the actual number of minutes. There are 2 issues with that. One, there is not single way to change any time zone without editing the records for everyone, every portal and every module using it.

But then I also stepped back from my position trying to fix the time and think of how it would be easiest. So, the problem breaks down to what we hated before; who and when. Ok, so how do we know who participates? Well, sounds like another item needs to be added to the profile data of a user and the site settings of the portal. Just a simple check box that says "Adjust my time for Daylight Saving Time".

Then we need to know when. Who cares when? Let’s just make this as easy as my VCR. Go to the host settings or Languages page and add a check box, drop down, radio whatever you like for saying start DST and end DST. Obviously with the way DNN Schedule goes it’s a little hard to automate the change (not to mention the politics).

The final thing that needs to be done is storing all time stamp data as GMT. This way each time the time is displayed it can do the math. I realize this solution requires a lot of changes and not just simple changes like the adding of a profile property. But please, something has to be done. My sites spend half the year with really messed up times. If there is some other way of doing this, please let me know. I really need a site that keeps very accurate time.