[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 594504] Need a GType of "Date AND Time AND Timezone"

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594504



--- Comment #15 from Sebastian Dröge <slomo at circular-chaos.org> 2009-09-09 09:48:06 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> Timezone, including DST, is just a human readable string that people are more
> likely to remember and be comfortable with than the timezone offset.  The only
> way to unambiguously represent a time is with UTC, or localtime +/- UTC offset.
> 
> So the remaining question is: do you want to store 3-4 letter timezone ID
> (which btw are not unique, nor unambiguous) and a bit for "DST"?

The timezone would be stored as offset to UTC (i.e. +0800 etc). Question is, do
we need to store DST? IMHO DST or not just changes the timezone by one hour

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