On 2013-05-27 11:00, Sanford Whiteman wrote:
I'm not talking about storage time zone; we use UTC for that. I'm
talking about the default display time zone.
Don't you think that using proper calculations for displaying dates are application developers' responsibility? Whether is it setting a proper TZ in app config, or asking user if it's a better scenario for given app.
Unless we are
misunderstanding each other (not unlikely given how this thread has
sprawled) you seem to be saying the display time zone should be UTC by
default and changed only based on end-user input. I think there are
five legitimate levels of consideration (storage tz, sitewide display
tz, domain/corporate display tz, stored user profile tz, and transient
session tz).
That's a very valid point. In my opinion, time should be stored and processed in UTF, and only displayed with a proper offset, but, per what I wrote above, I think it's an app's responsibility to display it properly.
--Leszek