Re: Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-22 Thread Shironeko
ambiguous, but I don't have an idea on what would be better. Maybe people that have those can chime in. Best, Shironeko

Re: Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-03 Thread Shironeko
pointers. Like how would I go about finding all the timestamps and make changes. Perhaps somewhere in org that does something similar. Regards, shironeko signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-03 Thread Shironeko
The only ambiguous timestamp is the hour when exiting DST (dialing back), and that time is usually set to when there is not much going on (like midnight). all other time do not need to specify whether its DST or not, which fits in with the current timestamp format. signature.asc Description:

Re: Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-03 Thread Shironeko
tz database and tools using it like the date(1) command can convert between local times taking into account all the difference like daylight savings time. An example below, Toronto observes daylight savings whereas Shanghai does not: $ TZ=Asia/Shanghai date --date='TZ="America/Toronto" 2021-11-07

Re: Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-03 Thread shironeko
see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

Re: Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-02 Thread Shironeko
On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 10:37 +1100, Tim Cross wrote: > > 1. Timzone alone is not sufficient. Offsets from UTC change due to > daylight savings times etc. > > 2. You can easily have timestamps from different timezones in the same > org file > > 3. Storing timestamps in local time is problematic

Re: Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-02 Thread Shironeko
On Fri, 2021-04-02 at 13:34 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 07:40:47AM +0000, shironeko wrote: > > Hm. Just a mumbling from the peanut gallery: isn't the timezone a property > of the timestamp itself? > > Specifying the timezone for the whol

Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-02 Thread shironeko
compatible, and it should do the job well enough. Regards, shironeko

Idea for handling timezones

2021-04-02 Thread Shironeko
compatible, and it should do the job well enough. Regards, shironeko