From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time-zone in dates
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:17:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egkugfjw.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zj3iodr4.fsf@ucl.ac.uk
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> On Friday, 26 Jun 2015 at 21:57, francois@avalenn.eu wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> It is really simpler programmatically to deal with time offsets
>> instead. The downside is that you cannot manage DST and other similar
>> peculiarities but the API is much simpler to write.
>
> Time offsets are not sufficient. My Australia experience involved me
> living in South Australia while working with colleagues in the UK. The
> time difference throughout the year was one of 8.5 hours, 9.5 hours or
> 10.5 hours, depending on the various switches to and from daylight
> savings. Very annoying and confusing to manage...
>
> To be effective and usable, org will need to incorporate time zone
> information.
The only reliable way of doing that is to use UTC as the "internal"
representation and translate to/from local time on external
display/input *only*. In the case of org mode, the "internal"
representation is user-visible, so that can cause confusion and some
head-scratching. But *any* other method is going to be a nightmare
(damhikt).
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-30 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-26 13:40 Time-zone in dates Oleg Sivokon
2015-06-26 14:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-26 14:33 ` Left Right
2015-06-26 14:38 ` J. David Boyd
2015-06-26 15:10 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-26 19:20 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-26 19:57 ` francois
2015-06-26 21:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-06-29 13:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-30 1:17 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2015-06-30 7:36 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-30 15:08 ` Nick Dokos
2015-07-01 6:27 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-01 10:04 ` Michael Brand
2015-07-01 11:22 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-07 17:27 ` Russell Adams
2015-07-08 15:59 ` Don Armstrong
2015-07-08 16:16 ` Russell Adams
2015-07-08 16:40 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-07-08 17:22 ` Titus von der Malsburg
2015-07-07 17:14 ` Don Armstrong
2015-07-01 15:17 ` Nick Dokos
2015-07-01 22:17 ` Left Right
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