Re:How to save datetimes for future events
by jrochkind1 on Monday March 23, 2015 @10:08PM
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> There are plenty of cases where the user really wants absolute time. Fro example, when scheduling an international meeting where the other side is dictating the time.
Nope. Then you want local time _on the other party's side_, which has the same problematic relationship to 'absolute time'. I'm not sure there's any case (except scientists doing science) where the user would really want "absolute time" (and then we could ask _what_ absolute time, there isn't even neccesarily such a thing as One True Absolute Time).
> It gets trickier. What if you are tracking that international event, and that locality changes their time rules?
So, did you read the OP? That's in fact what the article is about?
Nope. Then you want local time _on the other party's side_, which has the same problematic relationship to 'absolute time'. I'm not sure there's any case (except scientists doing science) where the user would really want "absolute time" (and then we could ask _what_ absolute time, there isn't even neccesarily such a thing as One True Absolute Time).
> It gets trickier. What if you are tracking that international event, and that locality changes their time rules?
So, did you read the OP? That's in fact what the article is about?