On 11/08/2010, at 11:57 PM, David Avendasora wrote:

> On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Jon Nolan wrote:
> 
>> IMO, this fight is absolutely not worth the effort. Store your "birthday" 
>> attributes as integers (19700302) or strings and create cover methods on 
>> your EOs to convert to date and back.
> 
> This seems the most accurate way to handle it. Noon GMT just displaces the 
> problem to the opposite side of the planet, no? It would have to be noon in 
> the timezone in which the event is recorded, but then, what if the user 
> moves? A mess.

I agree that it's a mess.  The normalise-to-noon idea seemed attractive to me, 
though, because it would require almost no intervention (just a single extra 
method call) in an app that's already in production.  Maybe that's a false 
economy.


-- 
Paul.

http://logicsquad.net/


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