Aloha all,
Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
* Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> [2023-01-19 00:31]:
The problem is with meeting 2 and the assumption there is a
definitive
timezone for the meeting.
Consider this scenario. I have a meeting with two other people.
We are
all in different timezone. What is the timezone of the meeting?
Meetings are occurrences, which require absolute time, which has
no timezones. Org should record occurrences with timestamps in
UTC, possibly translating from the user's local time.
Org in this state can't handle such things.
Org can do the useful thing: translate the UTC timestamp into
local time and report both UTC and local time. User will be able
quickly to determine if local time is incorrect for some reason,
such as DST or travel.
Storing timestamps in UTC solves the interval problem Ihor raised.
Intervals always make sense in absolute time. Moving them to
event time leads to the insanity Ihor mentioned.
hth,
Tom
A person in any timezone shall be able to see that time in his
local
time zone if we speak of distant meetings, and in case of face
to face
meetings, that person shall have computer aid to show him the
meeting
time in any time zone that user is located, during travel and
upon
arrival to face to face meeting.
User is supposed to be assisted by computer. And not to assist
to
computer, or to get troubles from computer.
- Time zone shall be more or less recognizable by city and
country.
- User addresses in the address book shall be part of every
computer system
- It is natural and common sense to know addresses of people one
wants
to meet
- By using location of person one wants to meet, computer has
got
enough information for representation of the time zone
- By sharing appointment record to user in other time zone, that
user
would see it in his time zone, or by choice in original time
zone of
the meeting place
A record of time, shall have two attributes, the UTC time and
the time
zone to be displayed. By using system time zone setting, Org
file time
zone settings, heading time zone settings or time stamp time
zone
setting, any export of Org shall contain (by user's option) the
desired representation of time stamps.
Function of sharing of meetings shall ask local user:
- is user in different time zone?
And then by choice of the user's location, the time
representation
shall be prepared in such way that both parties understand each
other.
That is really not in the sphere of Org where there is not even
a
decent address book available.
Just re-write the time by hand for your friend at other part of
the
world, write the timestamp in his time zone and your time zone,
and
problem solved.
It is supposed to be text. It is not God.
--
Thomas S. Dye
https://tsdye.online/tsdye
