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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Time-zone in dates
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:08:19 -0400
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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Monday, 29 Jun 2015 at 21:17, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> 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).
>
> This may be the correct approach although I worry about losing
> information by only storing UTC.  Whether this information loss is
> important or not is difficult to predict.  It may be of ephemeral
> importance only.

In what way are you losing information?