Re: org-table change time from UTC to other timezones

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

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Maxim:

Both of these links, like your comments, are incredibly useful.

Happy New Year (however you may measure that thing)

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 9:05 AM Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2020-12-13 Alan E. Davis wrote:
> >
> > I think R would not be too unwieldy as a hammer here.  My use case  is a
> > humble one: just take a several clock times in HH:MM format (utc) and
> > adjust to  another timezone by adding or subtracting the relevant number
> > of hours.  The day of week is not important; i will have to deal with
> > it.  I did imagine a conditional subtraction by adding of subtracting
> > 24:00 as needed.
>
> Likely your approach is suitable for you and you could ignore my
> comments. I just live in a city having longitude that should be (and it
> was) the border between time zones, so majority do not like any
> decision. Since cancellation of DST 10 years ago, local time has been
> shifted 2 times...
>
> To get time offset for some timezone, it is necessary to specify
> timestamp, so a date is required in addition to time. Namely day of week
> is mostly irrelevant.
>
> Time transitions are usually arranged at night when most of people are
> not active. Astronomers is a different case, that is why their chance to
> face a timezone bug is higher.
>
> When operations with arbitrary time zones are not required and a process
> could be run with TZ variable set to desired time zone, libc functions
> should work correctly. I have not tried elisp functions
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Time-Zone-Rules.html
>
> A bookmark for those who still hopes to avoid complications with
> time-related operations
>
> Falsehoods programmers believe about time
>
> https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
>
>
>

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