Hi,

The current timezone implemention in skype can be a bit misleading when it comes to summer/daylight savings time. Is there any way to relate the timezone seen with the usual non daylight saving time GMT offset?

My problem is that the external application stores timezones as a GMT offset and then calculates summer/winter time. So (for example), for people in Central Europe, the timezone offset as shown by skype is GMT+2 during summertime. So storing GMT+2 in the application database appears like the contact is in (for example) Estonia instead of Berlin.

Similarly, for someone in Australia, the timezone offset as shown by skype now (August) is GMT+10. This is correct for now, as there is no daylight savings in Australia yet, but could obviously be misleading when they switch. The skype implementation, although correct (Europe is GMT+2 during summer) does not follow Windows implemention (not sure about Unix, Mac) under Date/Time Properties.

So my question is, how can I easily determine if the time returned by skype should be offset or not for summer time - especially since I do not necessarily know the contacts location? Or is this impossible?

Advice appreciated.

ps I accidentally posted this in skype suggestions earlier... wrong forum!