[Dev] Time zones in Chandler

[Mike Taylor]

Are you talking about storing dates with timezone information or using 
this library to change the date to a presentation timezone?  I'm a big 
fan of storing *all* dates internally in any data collection as GMT and 
only using TZ's for presentation.

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On Jun 17, 2004, at 9:29 PM, jeffrey at skyhouseconsulting.com wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> We will probably need a cross-platform way to deal with timezones in
> Python.  Python 2.3 introduced decent timezone operation through the
> datetime module, but it doesn't actually implement any concrete
> timezone classes, i.e., datetime objects don't automatically know what
> 'PST' or 'America/Los_Angeles' means.
>
> There's a free interface to the standard Olson timezone database 
> available at
> http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html which seems like it might work well
> for us.  Does anyone see any problems in integrating this tiny (70K)
> module into the Chandler build?
>
> One potential complication is that we're currently using mxDateTime
> objects for dealing with dates, and it's not clear that this package
> will actually make it easier to deal with timezones in mx.  Are we
> only using mx because we want mxRelativeDateTime objects, or are there
> other reasons to prefer mx to datetime?
>
> I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on what problems around 
> time
> zones might come up with Chandler.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeffrey
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