Re: Idea for handling timezones

[Greg Minshall]

hi, Shiro,

> With this, say the user have
> 
> #+TIMEZONE: America/Toronto
> 
> at the start of their org file, and they moved to Shanghai, all the timestamp 
> in
> the org file is converted using something equivalent to
> 
> $ TZ=Asia/Shanghai date --date='TZ="America/Toronto" '"$TIMESTAMP"
> 
> and the file header changed to
> 
> #+TIMEZONE: Asia/Shanghai
> 
> when they get back the timestamp is returned with
> $ TZ=America/Toronto date --date='TZ="Asia/Shanghai" '"$TIMESTAMP"

i can imagine buffer-wide time zone settings, especially if one has
multiple .org files, could become hard to manage.  i don't know the
issues with evolving towards a syntax where time zone information is
embedded in time stamps themselves, but i wonder if that might be more
manageable.

i *can* imagine that if needed, one might do one's own hack, such as
your suggestion, while that evolution progresses.  in particular, issues
about entering, and displaying, time stamps, which need to be solved in
either case, could then be tackled.  i would think.

cheers, Greg