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From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd)
Subject: Re: Time-zone in dates
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:38:05 -0400
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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