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From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
To: Shironeko <shironeko@tesaguri.club>
Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Idea for handling timezones
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2021 14:23:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <647187.1617449014@apollo2.minshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Apr 2021 17:26:43 +0800." <bd86bfcf3b3524dc289c2b78549f6594dcca81d6.camel@tesaguri.club>

hi, Shiro,

> With this, say the user have
> 
> #+TIMEZONE: America/Toronto
> 
> at the start of their org file, and they moved to Shanghai, all the timestamp in
> the org file is converted using something equivalent to
> 
> $ TZ=Asia/Shanghai date --date='TZ="America/Toronto" '"$TIMESTAMP"
> 
> and the file header changed to
> 
> #+TIMEZONE: Asia/Shanghai
> 
> when they get back the timestamp is returned with
> $ TZ=America/Toronto date --date='TZ="Asia/Shanghai" '"$TIMESTAMP"

i can imagine buffer-wide time zone settings, especially if one has
multiple .org files, could become hard to manage.  i don't know the
issues with evolving towards a syntax where time zone information is
embedded in time stamps themselves, but i wonder if that might be more
manageable.

i *can* imagine that if needed, one might do one's own hack, such as
your suggestion, while that evolution progresses.  in particular, issues
about entering, and displaying, time stamps, which need to be solved in
either case, could then be tackled.  i would think.

cheers, Greg


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-03 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-01  7:40 Idea for handling timezones shironeko
2021-04-02 11:34 ` tomas
2021-04-03  0:36   ` Shironeko
2021-04-03  7:56     ` tomas
2021-04-03  8:03       ` shironeko
2021-04-03  8:30         ` tomas
2021-04-03  9:26           ` Shironeko
2021-04-03 11:23             ` Greg Minshall [this message]
2021-04-03 15:00               ` Russell Adams
2021-04-03 18:51                 ` Greg Minshall
2021-04-03 20:06                   ` Samuel Wales
2021-04-03 22:47                   ` Tim Cross
2021-04-04  0:51                     ` Tom Gillespie
2021-04-04 16:06                       ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-04-23  1:45                         ` Shironeko
2021-04-23  7:54                           ` tomas
2021-04-03 12:43             ` tomas
2021-04-03 12:47               ` Shironeko
2021-04-03 13:20                 ` Shironeko
2021-04-02 23:37 ` Tim Cross
2021-04-03  0:31   ` Samuel Wales
2021-04-03  0:43   ` Shironeko
2021-04-03  0:53     ` Samuel Wales
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-31  2:23 Shironeko

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