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Re: Idea for handling timezones
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Samuel Wales |
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Re: Idea for handling timezones |
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Sat, 3 Apr 2021 13:06:16 -0700 |
the suggestion to change all your tses to utc was not a general
suggestion for all org users or a change to org. for op only.
but the point about grep and such then breaking is a good one. it is
possibly not a useful workaround for the op.
On 4/3/21, Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> wrote:
> Russell,
>
>> I would not suggest using UTC. I believe one of the reasons timestamps
>> didn't include TZ information was to keep them short and human
>> legible. Solutions with overlays to change a timestamp reduce the
>> usefulness of the plain text reading of Org (ie: less, grep,
>> etc). Storing timestamps with UTC is really a shortcut for the
>> computer, not the user.
>
> i wonder if this is perhaps another place where "org mode as simple
> text" conflicts with "org mode to solve difficult problems". that comes
> up from time to time (using dollar signs as delimiters for math is one
> recent example, another is "-" being "filled" into column one and taken
> as an item in a new list).
>
> it's a hard line to straddle.
>
> Greg
>
>
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