On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Jon Nolan wrote:

> IMO, this fight is absolutely not worth the effort. Store your "birthday" 
> attributes as integers (19700302) or strings and create cover methods on your 
> EOs to convert to date and back.

This seems the most accurate way to handle it. Noon GMT just displaces the 
problem to the opposite side of the planet, no? It would have to be noon in the 
timezone in which the event is recorded, but then, what if the user moves? A 
mess.

This is something that we are going to be dealing with as our markets expands 
globally. Some dates are locale-specific, some aren't, and some can even be 
locale-specific but only when compared to other local-specific dates (it would 
be helpful to know that you're wishing someone a happy birthday on the day they 
recognize as their birthday and not a day late).

Dave


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