[Spaceapi-devel] Specify a time zone for state.lastchange

[Iain R. Learmonth]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 02:21:49PM +0200, Simon Budig wrote:
> nog3 (nog3 at nog3.net) wrote:
> > I'd like to see a timezone offset field too, though our state is UTC+10 but
> > doesn't do daylight saving. So I can forsee this adding interesting issues.
> 
> Why not specify the timezone of the hackspace location according to the
> Olson database ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database )?

This would be my preference. It does require client applications to be more
intelligent than just adding/subtracting times, but then I imagine there are
existing libraries for this.

Iain.

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