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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Timezones revisited
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 07:50:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shnxuczj.fsf@pellet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170131230346.GV7187@volibear.adamsinfoserv.com

Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> writes:

> I understand that Org's timestamp format does not include timezone
> information. Making that change would be an impractical modification.
>
> I'm frequently working with several different timezones and I only
> need to store a time stamp converted to my local time.
>
> Does the time stamp input support some form of timezone input? I
> checked the manual and tried a few methods and they don't appear
> supported.

If the time stamp format doesn't support timezone info, then the input
method won't either, unfortunately. I had one of my occasional attacks
of enthusiasm about this subject recently -- using org-caldav while
you're traveling really exposes the limitations of timezone-unaware
scheduling.

Would it be completely out of the question to support an optional
timezone marker? From (nth 1 (current-time-zone))?

<2017-02-01 Wed PST>

The plumbing for time calculations would be... an adventure. But it
seems like it could be done in a backwards-compatible way.

E

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-01 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-31 23:03 Timezones revisited Russell Adams
2017-02-01 15:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-02-01 16:05   ` Russell Adams
2017-02-01 16:29     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-02-01 16:14   ` Peter Neilson
2017-02-01 16:20     ` Russell Adams
2017-02-01 17:33       ` Eric Abrahamsen

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