On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Florent wrote: > On Sep 23, 2:00 pm, Rob Biedenharn <[email protected]> > wrote: >> It can't be foolproof because the northern and southern hemispheres >> have opposite seasons and when they observe daylight time is >> understandably about a half-year off from the other hemisphere. I'm >> sure (even without trying to check) that there are parts of each year >> where pairs of time zones are either both observing daylight time or >> not with the same UTC offset so the best that you could do was to >> offer a small set of possible zones. >> >> -Rob >> >> Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com >> [email protected] > > True. Officially hate timezones. > > I'm thinking about by-passing the Time.zone thing and implement a > simple UTC + x conversion system. > Am I going crazy?
If you want to show a user a local time, you're going to have to deal with DST even if only to give the user a way to change the offset twice a year. If you start to think that you should implement your own TimeZone library, then you might already be crazy. ;-) -Rob Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
