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Re: [O] Time-zone in dates


From: Eric S Fraga
Subject: Re: [O] Time-zone in dates
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:36:01 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

On Monday, 29 Jun 2015 at 21:17, Nick Dokos wrote:
> The only reliable way of doing that is to use UTC as the "internal"
> representation and translate to/from local time on external
> display/input *only*.  In the case of org mode, the "internal"
> representation is user-visible, so that can cause confusion and some
> head-scratching. But *any* other method is going to be a nightmare
> (damhikt).

This may be the correct approach although I worry about losing
information by only storing UTC.  Whether this information loss is
important or not is difficult to predict.  It may be of ephemeral
importance only.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.1, Org release_8.3beta-1261-g304f84



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