Why and when storing local time?

Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com
Tue Apr 5 15:28:23 CEST 2011


Florian v. Samson wrote:
> Jeroen,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 5. April 2011 um 12:35:42 schrieb Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab
> 
> Systems):
> > Florian v. Samson wrote:
> > > > Note that it would be data for several TZ-IDs as startdate and
> > > > enddate could have use different timezones.
> > > 
> > > This is a really rare case, IMO, and these are at most two (not
> > > "several"), AFAICS.
> > 
> > Actually most commonly flights that cross timezones start in one timezone
> > but have their touch-down / controlled-crash time in the local timezone.
> 
> This is still at most two TZs (and that was the point I intended to get
> across).
> 

I'm regularly on flights that invoke presence on the ground in 4-5 timezones.

CWL -> AMS -> MSP -> PHX and back, for example, was a trip as recent as late 
last January / early last February.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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