04.09.2009, 01:41
It turns out that Streets and Trips saves the time in Standard Time in the time zone. As a result I am in Eastern Daylight Time -4, the record says -5. While I know it should always show Zulu time, the fact is that it does NOT... so what now?
Extracted from the beginning of the file below...
<time>2009-09-03T22:00:07-05:00</time>
clearly shows the -05:00 when it is now -04:00 due to the use of Daylight Savings Time.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" creator="Microsoft Streets & Trips" version="1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd"><metadata><name>Testing GPX.gpx</name><desc>Data exported from Microsoft Streets & Trips</desc><copyright author="Microsoft Streets & Trips"><license>http://www.microsoft.com/streets</license></copyright><time>2009-09-03T20:37:05</time><keywords>Testing GPX.gpx, Microsoft Streets & Trips</keywords></metadata><trk><trkseg><trkpt lat="43.7624461067136" lon="-79.412792649419"><time>2009-09-03T22:00:07-05:00</time><ele>205.9000</ele><sat>3</sat></trkpt>
Extracted from the beginning of the file below...
<time>2009-09-03T22:00:07-05:00</time>
clearly shows the -05:00 when it is now -04:00 due to the use of Daylight Savings Time.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" creator="Microsoft Streets & Trips" version="1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd"><metadata><name>Testing GPX.gpx</name><desc>Data exported from Microsoft Streets & Trips</desc><copyright author="Microsoft Streets & Trips"><license>http://www.microsoft.com/streets</license></copyright><time>2009-09-03T20:37:05</time><keywords>Testing GPX.gpx, Microsoft Streets & Trips</keywords></metadata><trk><trkseg><trkpt lat="43.7624461067136" lon="-79.412792649419"><time>2009-09-03T22:00:07-05:00</time><ele>205.9000</ele><sat>3</sat></trkpt>