On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [snip] >> >> >>> Actually, except for GMT-12 or GMT+12, no, you do NOT need the time zone >>> to figure out the date from 1200 UTC. However as I've said now three >>> times, GnuCash doesn't use 1200 UTC currently, it uses 0000 local, which >>> (as I've said a half dozen times) I consider a bug that should get fixed. >>> >>> >> I don't see how 1200 UTC would work in New Zealand or any of the other >> countries on GMT+12, not to mention Tonga. You enter a date of July 2, >> then >> GnuCash converts it to July 2, 1200 UTC. Then when you close GnuCash and >> reopen it, the date now displays as July 3 (July 2, 1200 UTC + 12 hours). >> So >> this would actually goof up New Zealanders; even the ones who never leave >> their time zone! Am I misunderstanding? >> > > * sigh * Unfortunately no. Doing a little research it appears that > timezones go from GMT+14 to GMT-10. At least I cannot find a GMT-11 or > GMT-12 timezone. But right now it is the same time, but one day apart > at GMT+14 (e.g. Kiritimati, Christmas Islands) vs. GMT-10 (Hawaii). Is > there some (landed) part of the world at GMT-11 or GMT-12? > According to wikipedia, the only land in GMT-12 is two uninhabited islands. However, GMT-11 includes Samoa, American Samoa and the Midway Islands. > Unfortunately that means there isn't really a single timestamp we could > choose. The best we could do is choose 10:01:00 GMT, which would give > us the correct answer everywhere but at GMT+14. > > I think Graham's point about a distinction between the two types is >> important. A date, which is all we allow the user to provide, represents a >> time range. A timestamp represents a fixed point in time. If we are not >> going to allow users to enter a timestamp, then we probably shouldn't be >> converting it into one. On the other hand, if we are going to allow >> timestamp entry then we have some code changes to think about (see my >> RFC). >> > > Well, I still believe that we SHOULD let users enter the timestamp. > > (I must've missed your RFC) > > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
