more than the milliseconds? ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev
2009/11/28 Richard Gaskin <[email protected]> > stephen barncard wrote: > > > 2009/11/28 Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> > > > > >> How do folks deal with storing dates when the formats around the > >> world vary so much? > > > > To ensure compatibility among platforms and countries; > > use the seconds as the stored time data, then convert on the fly at > > showtime. The dates and times should "just work" and formatted as > > they are set by the user. > > I like using the seconds and did so for many year, but recently I've had > to deliver stuff for teams working across time zones, and I found that > because the internet time preserves the time zone determining which > time/date is earlier than another is more accurate when the data comes from > different time zones. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com > revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
