From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTC or not UTC for timestamps in the past ([FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 07:50:20 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63d0454e.a70a0220.40e5.4366@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tqp3c1$i8a$1@ciao.gmane.io>
Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> On 22/01/2023 14:48, Tim Cross wrote:
>> Timestamp for a log
>> record I would probably want <YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM Z> or one of the
>> variants because the most common way I use those types of timestamp is
>> in diagnosing problems and comparing revords from various locations
>> where I don't care about the local time where the record was generated,
>> but with when it occurred in relation to other log recores.
>
> I agree that it is more convenient to have uniform offset in such case, especially in the
> case of multiple files having their specific timezone. During trips I do not expect so
> much changes of timezone to make comparison of timestamps significantly harder.
>
>> I would argue that all depends on how you use the information. My org
>> files are consumed by me (reading) and by scripts, elisp and other
>> programs.
>
> For scripts given offset should not be an issue at all. And it is up to you if you prefer
> to have UTC instead of local time offset in you files.
>
>> My preference is for a timestamp syntax which lets the user select the
>> format they want and not attempt to restrict it more than that.
>
> I do not mind to provide a user option for preferred storage format used for clock entries
> and similar stuff.
>
>> Provided
>> you can specify timestamp with and without TZ information and you
>> support full and abbreviated time zone names as well as UTC, I don't
>> think it mattters - let the user choose what suits them best.
>
> Concerning time zone abbreviations, I would discourage them as much as possible for
> storage format. They may be added to overlay though. Perhaps US residents would be unhappy
> by such decision, but there are enough examples of the same abbreviation for completely
> unrelated locations. Abbreviation may be useful in addition to timezone ID to disambiguate
> local time close to a backward time jump.
>
> Tim, in your last messages I do not see statements causing my objections any more. It
> seems we came to agreement: flexible enough storage format and configurable display format
> for overlays. Have I forgot anything?
No, I think you have covered everything.
I think most of your remaining concerns can be adequately covered via
some updated documentation and with some luck, people will add some use
case workflows to worg showing how using different storage formats and
display overlays can address various scenarios.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-24 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 328+ 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 [this message]
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
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
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