As another data point, I've built 5 apps that only use UTC and iso8601 for transport. This feature is much appreciated since it's pretty much the only reason I use Timex.
Allen Madsen On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:20 PM, José Valim <[email protected]> wrote: > We have added DateTime.from_iso8601 that can parse a ISO8601 as long as it > has an offset. It will convert the datetime to UTC (a valid timezone) and > also return the parsed offset. > > > > José Valim > www.plataformatec.com.br > Skype: jv.ptec > Founder and Director of R&D > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:39 PM, José Valim > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> To think about it in another way, you lose the information when you do >>> `DateTime.to_iso8601`, not in `DateTime.from_iso8601`. If anything, >>> it seems like `DateTime.to_iso8601` should be the controversial, >>> disclaimered transformation because this is the lossy point where >>> information about the specific locale is lost. >> >> >> >> The issue is that DateTime.from_iso8601 does not contain enough >> information to build a DateTime in the first place. The time_zone field is >> not currently allowed to be nil (solution 1) and Etc/GMT+X does not support >> all offsets, such as 5.5h, which is a valid offset (solution 2). >> >> So I agree that DateTime.to_iso8601 is controversial (and we have warnings >> on its documentation) but at the moment DateTime.from_iso8601 is not >> possible. I believe it would only be possible if we convert it to UTC but I >> am not sure if it is a valid trade-off in our case. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4Jp0dx5x%2BH6im3iho%2BXE2rB2Yg-%3Dh72nLTwHDgygH8ttA%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAK-y3CuXuodtZ%3DxuePLtmcWiNz3eHb4p72oHL2JryFofBiT5OA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
