Hi Tom, > They're stored in Zulu time, which has the advantage of not > being dependent on time zones or daylight savings.
But I guess my question is, why is that an advantage ? I can see some advantages eg searching and sorting, but I can also see cases where it would not be the right thing to do eg recording when a photograph was taken. In fact I can see advantages and disadvantages in every possible scenario. > The best thing to do is to store them in this timezone, but > to convert them on display to the local time. I suppose so, but that means recording somewhere which metadata terms are dates, bearing in mind that there is no obligation to use Dublin Core. Currently this is done in input-forms.xml but that only applies to the metadata collected in the 'describe' step, not automatically generated metadata. Apologies for thinking this through 'out loud', it just helps. Cheers, Robin. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
