On 11/08/2010, at 11:57 PM, David Avendasora wrote: > 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.
I agree that it's a mess. The normalise-to-noon idea seemed attractive to me, though, because it would require almost no intervention (just a single extra method call) in an app that's already in production. Maybe that's a false economy. -- Paul. http://logicsquad.net/ _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
