[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 #17 from Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> 2009-09-09 10:19:48 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.

 That unambiguously represents a time, but doesn't allow you to reproduce
localtime after doing an operation on it.  DST shifts are different for
different timezones, and are even different in different years.

 An enumeration of the known timezones allows you to deal with all that. 
Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no standardized list of unique timezones.

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