Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda

[Ihor Radchenko]

First of all, thanks for the detailed suggestion!
I will need more time to look through the provided links and think about
the ideas.

I will provide one important consideration you missed in the below comment.

Sterling Hooten <hooten@gmail.com> writes:

> What format and syntax should Org use?
>
> A heretical suggestion: We should abandon the day of week abbreviation
> and use a new format.
> ...
> [2023-01-25 Wed 13:57]–[2023-01-26 Thu 13:57]
>
> it would be:
>
> [2023-01-25T16:57:42Z/2023-01-26T16:57:42Z].

Following ISO and other standards is indeed a reasonable idea. However,
the standards are not necessarily designed for human consumption.
In contrast, Org mode is designed to be read by humans as well, even
without Emacs - just as plain text.

Design for human consumption is one of the reasons we do provide the
redundant information like week day (I personally did find it extremely
useful on multiple occasions) and do use spaces, deviating from ISO. The
above ISO example is barely readable by humans. Another example from
wiki page of ISO 8601 is even worse: R5/2008-03-01T13:00:00Z/P1Y2M10DT2H30M

And we need to deviate from ISO 8601 anyway. At least, because it does
not define time zones, only absolute UTC offsets. So, the ability to
conform with the existing formats remains questionable.

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