From: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-table change time from UTC to other timezones
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:04:04 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rr2pll$kfg$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF-1L2QrWwPaZygp2_Pxo+Hye1keYfAX76qLmvQta9BoFa514w@mail.gmail.com>
2020-12-12 Alan E. Davis wrote:
>
> Thank for the clear explanation. My little problem seems to require a
> super steam hammer. Your insights are most helpful.
You do not need a steam hammer. There are a number of tools around. Some
of hammers however could not deal with all nails.
Even "date" util could be used to convert between timestamps and human
readable representation, between timezones. It could even do some arithmetic
date --utc -d @1234567890
Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 UTC 2009
date -d 'now' +%s
1607787784
date -d 'now +10hours' +%s
1607823786
TZ=America/New_York date -d "@`TZ=Europe/Berlin date -d '2020-11-10
09:08:07 +10hours' '+%s'`"
Mon Nov 9 19:08:07 EST 2020
In my opinion, org mode is too rigid in respect to timestamp format.
Sometimes I would prefer to specify timestamps with timezone.
Well known example of idiosyncrasy of particular applications.
Timestamps in xls files are represented by floating point numbers,
namely days since 1 Jan 1900, fractional part is time. Unfortunately
1900 is not a leap year, so to avoid unnecessary complications of code
and keep memory footprint small, on Macs epoch starts in 1904, on
windows year 1900 has Feb, 29...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-12 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 10:20 org-table change time from UTC to other timezones Alan E. Davis
2020-12-09 11:34 ` Tim Cross
2020-12-10 8:10 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-10 19:01 ` Tim Cross
2020-12-11 0:12 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-11 15:40 ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-12-11 22:44 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-12 16:04 ` Maxim Nikulin [this message]
2020-12-12 22:52 ` Tim Cross
2020-12-13 3:14 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-13 17:03 ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-12-14 2:29 ` Alan E. Davis
2020-12-12 3:31 ` Jean Louis
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