On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Martin Blais <[email protected]> [2018-04-10 22:07]: > > Any thoughts welcome. I lean toward (B), but I'm annoyed. > > Maybe I misunderstand the problem, but with option (A) even if I don't > know what timezone they use, I should get a consistent result if I ask > the API for an exchange rate for a specific time (X) on a specific > day. What do you mean by "consistent"? Consistently one day off if it is? > Maybe I don't know what timezone X is (as you say, only one > publishes that info), but X is always going to be X from the POV of > the source (i.e. the API). (Similarly, if I in Europe ask the API for > a rate at, let's say, 14:00, and you in New York ask for the rate at > 14:00, we should get the same result. And I don't mean asking at > 14:00 hours but asking for the rate at 14:00) > You ask at 14:00 in which timezone? US 14:00 or Europe 14:00? If you don't know the instrument trades in the US, you ask at 14:00 in Europe timezone? It also depends how the API expects its input. If it expects a date, it's implicitly that of the instruments. If it expects a timestamp, there's no date, it's up to you to take the user's input date and convert it to a timestamp, assuming some timezone. Our current API doesn't support you providing a time, just a date. You request for a price at a particular date. The output is also coerced to be only a date too (the Price directive, like all other directives, supports only a date). (I don't think adding time support to all directives would be a reasonable compromise just for this.) If I understand (B) correctly, someone moving from Japan to the US > would suddenly get different results, Yes, the date might differ. > and I think making the result > dependent on where you are is a bad idea. > I agree, but then I need the timezone of those instruments, and some instruments don't have a timezone (FX). I don't think there's any good solution for this than to input/output time from those fetchers, but I do need to choose how to convert timestamps to dates and dates to timestamps consistently (that's why unit tests are broken if you run them from Europe right now). -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beancount/20180411192331.nnbpxcox6jepe3ro%40jirafa.cyrius.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhO261Mcqgk-vYhSyxWC69ep%3D5VtCeehjU7LDHxjTQkefg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
