From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 08:52:41 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63c32848.620a0220.dec52.1f9c@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lem582qw.fsf@localhost>
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
>
>>> ... Having an
>>> ability to specify time zones manually will already cater needs for a
>>> number of users.
>>
>> Definitely. But the time stamp (with time zone) in itself doesn't
>> carry enough context to actually decide that. It's even not that
>> easy to wrap one's head around dates that "travel" (the easiest
>> example would be perhaps: "9:00 show up at work" -- when DST takes
>> effect, it's still 9:00 whatever the local time is).
>
> This is basically what we have now - conform to "current" system time
> zone. We are not going to remove this timestamp style. Just add an
> ability to explicitly specify the timestamps if needed.
>
>> When you have appointments with people in totally diverse time zones,
>> perhaps dates tend to be more fixed wrt UTC.
>
> AFAIK, people don't usually bother. As long as you can map from specific
> time zone (applying the currently active summer clock time changes) to
> something like seconds from epoch, you can always calculate back to you
> preferred time zone. Look at https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Usergroups.
> They say, for example, "Europe/Berlin", which may be either CET or CEST.
>
> In any case, selection of time zone for user timestamps is not something
> we need to worry about in Org code. Users are to decide. Org might
> assist, but I do not see anything meaningful we can do to help with DST.
I think I basically agree with the last statement. However, perhaps we
need to step back and ask ourselves what it is that people do want which
drives this feature request. I doubt it is simply the ability to add TZ
information to timestamps. I suspect the underlying motivation here is
to have org mode actually use this information in a meaningful way,
which essentially means all the complicated stuff I'm concerned about
and which you seem to imply we wouldn't manage anyway.
To put it another way, we need to clarify what people mean when they
request the feature of timestamp support in org-mode datestamps. What
does this actually mean? Is it as simple as just being able to specify
the timezone (seems relatively easy to implement, but doens't really add
much) or is the expectation that once you have time zone information, it
will be used to do things like adjust date+time in agenda based on
change in locale or change in daylight savings status etc.
Clarifying the end goal will likely focus the discussion a lot
more. My interpretation, which could well be too extreme, is that people
want more than just the ability to add TZ info to their timestamps. They
want their agenda to reflect correct meeting/schedule times based on
their current locale, which may have changed since the initial timestamp
was recorded. They want time duration calculations which are able to
handle DS transitions etc, they want their agenda/calendar to adjust in
a similar way to how their Google calendar will adjust based on DS
transitions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-14 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 330+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-13 8:56 [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda Daryl Manning
2023-01-13 12:51 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-14 6:27 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-14 12:46 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-14 11:18 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 11:26 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-14 11:42 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-15 5:11 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-15 13:41 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 16:43 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-16 18:37 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-17 17:40 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-18 9:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-18 16:25 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-18 16:24 ` [SOLUTION] " Jean Louis
2023-01-20 10:57 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-20 11:29 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-20 11:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-20 15:10 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-20 11:39 ` Fraga, Eric
2023-01-20 11:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-21 12:55 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-21 13:41 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-21 9:21 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-21 10:14 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-22 11:49 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-20 22:51 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-14 13:03 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-14 13:22 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-15 19:10 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-16 11:21 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 11:30 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-16 11:39 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 15:43 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-16 19:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 19:22 ` Robert Horn
2023-01-16 19:41 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 20:47 ` Robert Horn
2023-01-16 21:02 ` Tom Gillespie
2023-01-16 21:48 ` Robert Horn
2023-01-17 8:53 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-17 3:55 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-17 8:22 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-17 9:15 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-17 9:45 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-18 9:15 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-18 11:43 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-18 12:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-18 21:16 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-19 5:29 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-19 6:25 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-19 14:17 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-19 15:55 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-21 13:10 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-21 16:23 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-21 13:50 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-21 14:31 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-21 16:55 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-19 7:23 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-19 14:32 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-19 20:09 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-19 23:02 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-19 23:51 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-20 0:24 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-20 3:46 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-20 6:14 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-27 6:06 ` Sterling Hooten
2023-01-27 6:09 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-27 9:54 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-27 21:04 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-29 4:09 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-29 6:21 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-29 6:46 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-29 14:10 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-30 19:37 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-31 0:53 ` Thomas S. Dye
[not found] ` <0597910b-9b01-3c0c-5d06-da171e0de4cd@gmx.at>
2023-01-31 6:08 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-29 6:31 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-30 20:36 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-30 20:38 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-29 20:26 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-30 20:55 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-30 21:54 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-31 7:04 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-31 8:14 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-31 13:02 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-27 11:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-27 12:49 ` Sterling Hooten
2023-01-27 13:00 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-27 15:03 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-30 13:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-27 20:58 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-30 11:25 ` Greg Minshall
2023-01-31 11:48 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-31 12:19 ` Daryl Manning
2023-01-31 12:41 ` Ihor Radchenko
[not found] ` <CAL9aZksf8AGF=dXg0KAtLPyu1ATt1fLpvdsjN6GMCuK2KRQ56w@mail.gmail.com>
2023-01-31 13:33 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-31 13:22 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-31 13:46 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-31 19:59 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 12:42 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 15:28 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 16:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-31 20:12 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 5:46 ` tomas
2023-02-01 7:29 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 7:52 ` Tim Cross
2023-02-01 8:32 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 8:46 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 9:38 ` Tim Cross
2023-02-01 10:15 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 14:53 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 16:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 10:46 ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-01 14:43 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 16:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-02 3:05 ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-02 8:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 9:40 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info Stefan Nobis
2023-02-01 9:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 14:38 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Jean Louis
2023-02-01 16:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-03 15:48 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info Stefan Nobis
2023-02-04 5:07 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 9:06 ` Stefan Nobis
2023-02-01 9:20 ` tomas
2023-02-01 9:48 ` Stefan Nobis
2023-10-29 1:04 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-06 15:34 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-02-06 17:03 ` tomas
2023-02-07 21:08 ` Jean Louis
2023-10-29 1:02 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-01 7:00 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Thomas S. Dye
2023-02-01 7:41 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-31 17:56 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info Fraga, Eric
2023-01-31 18:13 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-31 18:22 ` Fraga, Eric
2023-01-31 18:56 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Greg Minshall
2023-02-01 12:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 12:52 ` tomas
2023-02-02 4:49 ` Greg Minshall
2023-01-31 20:41 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-31 23:50 ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-01 13:01 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-04 22:33 ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-04 22:49 ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-05 10:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 11:56 ` Christian Moe
2023-02-01 12:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
[not found] ` <87o7qdsf7h.fsf@christianmoe.com>
2023-02-01 13:26 ` POSIX TS spec reverses the meaning of TZ offset compared to ISO (was: [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda)) Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 13:51 ` tomas
2023-02-01 21:57 ` POSIX TS spec reverses the meaning of TZ offset compared to ISO (was: [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info Heinz Tuechler
2023-02-01 22:50 ` Samuel Wales
2023-02-02 9:01 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-02 3:22 ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-02 7:45 ` POSIX TS spec reverses the meaning of TZ offset compared to ISO Heinz Tuechler
2023-02-02 8:33 ` tomas
2023-02-02 9:37 ` Heinz Tuechler
2023-02-04 15:44 ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-02 5:35 ` POSIX TS spec reverses the meaning of TZ offset compared to ISO (was: [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info tomas
2023-02-02 8:56 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 15:16 ` POSIX TS spec reverses the meaning of TZ offset compared to ISO (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Max Nikulin
2023-02-02 8:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-02 13:59 ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-02 14:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 15:41 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info " Jean Louis
2023-02-02 8:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-03 11:31 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-04 10:58 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-04 19:32 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-05 9:14 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-02 3:46 ` Timothy
2023-02-02 9:12 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-02 9:12 ` Timothy
2023-02-02 9:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-02 9:27 ` Timothy
2023-02-02 9:38 ` [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info Stefan Nobis
2023-01-30 12:30 ` [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-30 15:30 ` Greg Minshall
2023-01-30 15:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-30 15:48 ` Greg Minshall
2023-01-20 4:03 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-20 5:39 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-20 7:28 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-20 8:11 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-20 15:29 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-20 22:56 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-20 9:35 ` Fraga, Eric
2023-01-20 10:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-20 6:46 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-20 7:34 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-20 8:17 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-20 12:17 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-20 16:09 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-20 16:56 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-20 20:37 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-21 0:14 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-21 0:37 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-21 5:53 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-21 15:55 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-22 12:14 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-22 13:35 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-22 14:09 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-20 23:38 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-21 6:21 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-21 21:29 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-22 5:50 ` UTC or not UTC for timestamps in the past ([FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode) Max Nikulin
2023-01-22 6:17 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-22 8:35 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-22 16:54 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-23 6:28 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-23 16:04 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-24 2:34 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-24 2:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-24 4:48 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-24 19:18 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-24 9:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-24 16:41 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-26 15:37 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-26 16:31 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-27 21:21 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-22 7:48 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-24 17:09 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-24 19:20 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-24 20:50 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-19 10:35 ` [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-19 17:57 ` Alexander Adolf
2023-01-21 13:51 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-18 17:09 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-17 8:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-19 16:56 ` Robert Horn
2023-01-19 17:44 ` Alexander Adolf
2023-01-19 17:48 ` Alexander Adolf
2023-01-17 15:37 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-18 9:29 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-18 16:11 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-18 21:31 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-19 10:40 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-17 17:28 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-17 19:49 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-18 16:21 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-18 16:20 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-20 16:27 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-19 17:33 ` Alexander Adolf
2023-01-16 20:25 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-17 9:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-17 15:24 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-18 9:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-18 16:07 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-19 10:43 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-19 14:37 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-15 20:43 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-16 11:25 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-17 15:19 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-18 9:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 5:01 ` Tom Gillespie
2023-01-16 12:31 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 20:32 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-16 20:51 ` Tom Gillespie
2023-01-17 9:12 ` [FR] Allow BC years in timestamps (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-13 19:06 ` [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda Jean Louis
2023-01-14 7:12 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-14 9:32 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-14 11:08 ` Russell Adams
2023-01-14 11:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 12:00 ` Russell Adams
2023-01-14 12:16 ` [FR] Allow end date and max repeat count for timestamps with repeaters (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-15 1:09 ` Samuel Wales
2023-01-15 13:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-15 23:49 ` Samuel Wales
2023-01-15 23:53 ` Samuel Wales
2023-01-16 13:01 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 12:19 ` [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 12:21 ` Russell Adams
2023-01-14 12:31 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 11:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 14:09 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-14 14:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 14:48 ` tomas
2023-01-14 15:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 16:50 ` tomas
2023-01-14 17:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 17:13 ` tomas
2023-01-15 19:54 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-14 21:52 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2023-01-15 13:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-20 14:34 ` Alexander Adolf
2023-01-15 20:03 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-15 19:52 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-16 13:11 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 20:56 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-15 20:24 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-15 4:37 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-15 5:03 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-15 20:28 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-16 13:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 11:55 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-14 13:50 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-14 16:50 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-14 20:30 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-15 4:00 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-15 7:53 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-15 19:26 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-16 13:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-15 14:00 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-14 13:08 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-14 16:58 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-14 19:43 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-15 6:37 ` tomas
2023-01-15 14:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-15 20:43 ` Tim Cross
2023-01-16 5:20 ` Tom Gillespie
2023-01-16 13:29 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 17:30 ` Tom Gillespie
2023-01-16 17:53 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-16 13:27 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-15 19:14 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-16 4:20 ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-15 19:12 ` Jean Louis
2023-01-14 5:14 ` Samuel Wales
2023-01-14 5:51 ` Tom Gillespie
2023-01-14 6:40 ` tomas
2023-01-26 15:24 ` Org mode timestamps on the Moon ;] (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-26 16:08 ` Org mode timestamps on the Moon ;] Fraga, Eric
2023-01-26 16:28 ` Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-26 23:40 ` Org mode timestamps on the Moon ;] (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda) Tom Gillespie
2023-01-30 10:13 ` Org mode timestamps on the Moon ; ] " Greg Minshall
2023-01-30 13:05 ` Org mode timestamps on the Moon ;] " Ihor Radchenko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-15 19:16 [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda Thomas S. Dye
2023-01-28 6:26 Max Nikulin
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