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From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time-zone in dates
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:38:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gjub381e7cxe.fsf@W0144758.usac.mmm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zj3mv9rb.fsf@ucl.ac.uk

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Friday, 26 Jun 2015 at 16:40, Oleg Sivokon wrote:
>> Hello, list.
>>
>> I was looking for a way to add time-zone to the date recrod, something
>> like: <2015-07-05 Sun 20:00 GMT+0>.  I was told that it's very likely
>> that the functionality isn't there, so I wonder if it's really so, and
>> if indeed so, then what would it take to add it?
>
> It is indeed so.  What would it take?  Somebody to program the
> functionality in but this is a major challenge as time stamps are a
> fundamental building block of org and it would likely need to be upwards
> compatible...

I can see that being a real pain.  The simple way would 'just' be to convert
everything to UTC in the background for comparison.

Nothing I want to do!

Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-26 14:38 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 [this message]
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
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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