Hi Folks,

What's the current status of functionality and planned work for timestamps 
with timezone offsets, especially MS SQL Server's datetimeoffset data type?

I need to modify an app to support the storage of datetimes with varying, 
world-wide offsets. Currently the support is weak but I'm willing to put in 
the work to get it happening. Ideally, any code I write will give a decent 
framework for accommodating other db engines in the future when other 
interested parties put in the effort for their favourite/mandated engines...

So far I've been dabbling with little hacks in my installed Sequel gem, but 
I'm feeling ready to make a fork and get started properly. I'd appreciate 
it if someone (Jeremy in particular?) can offer a bit of guidance to make 
sure it's going to be flexible enough to accommodate other engines, other 
development styles, and also safe for existing users of Sequel regardless 
of their backend db engine.

I have a formal plan in mind for my app, regarding appropriate choice of 
data types both in the MS database and within the Ruby code. It would 
probably bore less people to share that plan directly with whoever offers 
guidance. My plan would impose rules that should probably be enabled using 
a plugin, settings or extension, since I believe they could be breaking 
changes for some projects that are currently playing loose with Ruby's Time 
and DateTime datatypes (i.e. just like the project I'm working on)

thanks in advance,
Andrew Clarke.

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