Storing UTC? There *is* a good case for local time!

Till Adam till.adam at kdab.com
Tue Dec 21 13:33:30 CET 2010


On Tuesday 21 December 2010 12:15:14 Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 December 2010 11.22:29 Till Adam wrote:
> > Point #3: the timezone information has useful additional semantics
> > So at least I, and my traveling colleagues, would really like to be able
> > to store "8 am Chicago time next Monday" and be able to retrieve it
> > from the Kolab storage with all of the information in there in another
> > client.
> 
> This, I am happy to declare, is a problem KEP 2 solves in its current
> version.

Yep, I know, just wanted to point out the use case, for posterity.

Till

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