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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Time-zone in dates
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:40:51 +0100
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On Wednesday,  8 Jul 2015 at 11:16, Russell Adams wrote:

[...]

> Then would you store the time in UTC only, or support a full timestamp
> that included timezone?
>
> Finally when being displayed they can use the user's $TZ by default,
> and maybe a suffix of @ TZ inside the date syntax?

The ideal implementation, in my opinion, would have time stamps defined
& stored with time zone information, as given by the user when creating
them (although this could default to UTC, say, if not present in the
time stamp) but displayed according to the user's $TZ (or overridden
with emacs variable) in cases like agenda views.

For upwards compatibility, however, it might be best if time stamps with
no time zone information be considered to be at the user's timezone,
as it is now.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.1, Org release_8.3beta-1260-gcedef7