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[Joshua Pritt]

My vote is for a new time zone field.
On Jun 2, 2014 4:59 AM, "Iain R. Learmonth" <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 08:55:47PM -0400, Josh Pritt wrote:
> > Does it not use utc time?
>
> Currently times are UTC+1 because that's where the server is. There are two
> options for timezones:
>
>  a) detecting where the user is based on IP geolocation or other magic,
>  b) detecting where the hackerspace is based on lat/lon or address.
>
> >Otherwise I suppose we could all agree to use the format that includes the
> >time zone (used also in oracle and other RDBMS).
>
> This would mean moving away from the Unix timestamp currently used which
> would break a lot of things that look at SpaceAPI.
>
> Maybe an extra timezone field would be better.
>
> Iain.
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