[Open-transport] API for Deutsche Bahn Fernverkehr schedules

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Tue Mar 1 22:22:46 UTC 2016


On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 10:24:17 PM CEST, Stefan Kaufmann wrote:
> Because, just take a look at the issues Philipp Bock ran into 
> with the EuroNight 23 Moscow-Berlin-Paris 
> <https://github.com/pbock/fahrplan#timezone-support>. This beast 
> runs 3169km, and while it “only” crosses two time zones (MSK/FET 
> and CET), CET does daylight savings, while FET doesn't. That 
> should bring tears of joy to everybody who works with this, and 
> from what I know, GTFS does fuck all to help with this situation 
> ;)

Scheduling all times in UTC will help with that :) Plus having a per 
station timezone. For rrrr this was war tested, based on the effort that 
was put in Navitia.

-- 
Stefan



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