The timezone problem

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On 11/12/2009 04:42 AM, Bradley Baetz wrote:
> Yeah, the DST thing is a common issue. I'd like for us to say that all
> times are UTC, always, and the front ends do the conversion, but I'm
> not 100% sure that stuff won't break.

	I think the UTC thing should still be done. It's something that we'd
have to think about quite a bit and start on early in a development
cycle--maybe for 3.8.

> I'm pretty sure that we require
> the DB server and the web server to be in the same timezone because of
> these issues (do we still?), so if you're doing any client-side
> conversion there may be issues.

	Yeah, we do still require that.

> Long term it'd be best to do UTC and fix what breaks, rather than
> encode a local timestamp into a brand new interface, though.

	Agreed.

	-Max
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