From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Time-zone in dates
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:59:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708155954.GS6137@geta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150707172707.GK3703@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com>
On Tue, 07 Jul 2015, Russell Adams wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 12:22:43PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > I particularly like the single event (a flight) that requires more than
> > one time zone to make sense. My diary is chock full of cases where it
> > looks like a flight out somewhere takes 2 hours but coming back takes
> > 11! (strong winds ;-)
>
> I believe this doesn't disprove the need for storing in UTC.
[...]
> After all there's no data lost in the plane example other than the
> relative timezone of the observer.
The relative timezone of the observer is important, though, because
that's how you enter the information, and it's often the most logical
way to display the information. If you just store UTC there's no way to
regenerate that.
Though all of that said, just storing UTC is significantly easier, and
while I'd love to see a complete implementation, an incomplete
implementation which could be expanded to become complete would be a
great advance.
--
Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com
This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure.
-- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-08 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-26 13:40 Time-zone in dates Oleg Sivokon
2015-06-26 14:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-26 14:33 ` Left Right
2015-06-26 14:38 ` J. David Boyd
2015-06-26 15:10 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-26 19:20 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-26 19:57 ` francois
2015-06-26 21:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-29 13:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-30 1:17 ` Nick Dokos
2015-06-30 7:36 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-30 15:08 ` Nick Dokos
2015-07-01 6:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-01 10:04 ` Michael Brand
2015-07-01 11:22 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-07 17:27 ` Russell Adams
2015-07-08 15:59 ` Don Armstrong [this message]
2015-07-08 16:16 ` Russell Adams
2015-07-08 16:40 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-08 17:22 ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-07-07 17:14 ` Don Armstrong
2015-07-01 15:17 ` Nick Dokos
2015-07-01 22:17 ` Left Right
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