Time zone and DST challenges

[kendari]

Other posts have addressed time differences, but I am creating this new topic to highlight a particular aspect of the issue.

Version 6.7 and earlier ignored both time zone and DST differences in the same synch operation. Beginning in 6.8, this is no longer automatic and no longer covers multiple differences. Instead, there is an option for each configuration to ignore one and only one time difference (in whole hours).

This is problematic for several reasons:
* Each configuration must be set individually. This is extra work compared to 6.7 where handling time differences was set globally for all configurations. Now the user must change the time setting in each configuration if they move to a different time zone.

* Version 6.8+ cannot handle multiple time zone differences in the same file set, possibly with DST as an additional factor. This is a problem for users such as myself who work in multiple time zones, so different files may be offset from the archived copy by a different number of hours -- plus or minus the current DST status -- in the same sync operation.

Version 6.8+ is suitable if only one time zone or DST difference is involved. But it is quite unworkable for multiple time differences.

Wish: Provide time zone/DST handling for multiple differences in the same file set (similar in function to 6.7).