For what it's worth ... +1 On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:31 AM Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 at 04:10, C Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Last year there was a discussion on date, time, and timezones in QGIS. > Back then the discussion was that QGIS uses the QDateTime object which > supports timezones, but QGIS does not expose timezones anywhere. This I > understand because time zones are the ultimate pain. > > > > I recently released a "Date/Time Tools" plugin ( > https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/datetimetools/) to start providing some > date/time/time zone conversions and support. I was thinking of providing > additional processing algorithms that would create a QDateTime field with > the timezone set, but the question I have is whether a vector layer were > saved to something like a GPKG would the timezone even be preserved? It > wouldn't be preserved with a ShapeFile. If timezones are not preserved then > the only way to provide a date, time, timezone would be as an ISO8601 > string (2007-01-14T21:05:02Z or 2007-01-14T06:55:53-0800). > > > > Is there currently any work going on for time zone support in QGIS that > I am unaware of? > > No, but it's **sorely** needed. We should start a QEP discussion to > collect thoughts here. > > While (as Even has pointed out) GPKG has quite rudimentary time zone > support we support other formats and databases which have full support > for time zones (eg postgres), so there's definitely value in seeing > first class time zone support in QGIS! > > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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