That works great for me. The next step in this process for me is always convert-to-UTC anyway, and it seems like the return value gives enough information for someone with a different use case to piece together a makeshift timezone from the UTC offset if they need to. Seems like a good solution.
Thanks for the quick response, and I look forward to the 1.4.0 release! On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 3:20:29 PM UTC-8, José Valim 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] <javascript:>> 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/6d2cbe95-6dae-4347-a66a-4e031cfa2c65%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
