Re: [POLL] Proposed syntax for timestamps with time zone info (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda)

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Jean Louis,

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> [2023-01-31 16:46]:
> > Specifying just @Europe/Berlin is ambiguous around the daylight 
> > savings
> > transition.
>
> Sorry, I cannot see practical example why is it ambiguous. 
> Unless
> programmer does not take all information in account, it is not
> ambigous. People on this planet agree on time zones in advance, 
> so
> there are few changes that people cannot plan in advance.

Please see Russia's plan to put Eastern Ukraine on Moscow time, 
and then come back and argue that people on this planet agree on 
time zones in advance:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/world/europe/russia-ukraine-time-zones.html?smid=url-share

All the best,
Tom
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