On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:15:29 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> That brings up another interesting question. What will happen if I
> switch time zones regularly on my machine? Are the transactions
> recorded in localtime? I think at least the reports are created in
> localtime. Would that give me a different set of transactions
> depending on the timezone I'm in right now? A few hints from Dave or
> grib on where we use localtime and where UTC/GMT would be helpful.
I sure hope the time used is UTC; that represents an unambiguous
statement of "When?" and you won't get bitten if there are people in
different timezones working with a common instance...
Looking at a sample from a data file:
<transaction>
<restore>
<guid>20b03aea85fa4f987000fa717c6ed177</guid>
<num>DEP</num>
<date-posted>
<s>1999-09-22 11:00:00 -0500</s>
</date-posted>
<date-entered>
<s>2001-03-21 08:55:23 -0600</s>
<ns>675332000</ns>
</date-entered>
<description>CD + Tshirt Sales</description>
<slots>
<s>
<k>notes</k>
<string>September Meeting Results</string>
</s>
</slots>
<split>
<guid>423adf022e843849833a36e659e648b8</guid>
<memo>September Meeting Results</memo>
<reconcile-state>n</reconcile-state>
<value>-43000/100</value>
<quantity>-43000/100</quantity>
<account>4dd736ebc4780abeecfe8525f1393be7</account>
</split>
<split>
<guid>383697bdaf35aba5e62c76bd1d0b4204</guid>
<memo>September Meeting Results</memo>
<reconcile-state>c</reconcile-state>
<value>43000/100</value>
<quantity>43000/100</quantity>
<account>ab7117519f598599d03036c990ef1b30</account>
</split>
</restore>
</transaction>
This sure looks like it is doing a reasonably appropriate thing:
- Unfortunately, this seems to be presenting the time in terms of
local time;
- Fortunately, by indicating the relative timezone, it's easy enough
to adjust to get UTC or whatever zone is appropriate locally...
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