the suggestion to change all your tses to utc was not a general suggestion for all org users or a change to org. for op only.
but the point about grep and such then breaking is a good one. it is possibly not a useful workaround for the op. On 4/3/21, Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> wrote: > Russell, > >> I would not suggest using UTC. I believe one of the reasons timestamps >> didn't include TZ information was to keep them short and human >> legible. Solutions with overlays to change a timestamp reduce the >> usefulness of the plain text reading of Org (ie: less, grep, >> etc). Storing timestamps with UTC is really a shortcut for the >> computer, not the user. > > i wonder if this is perhaps another place where "org mode as simple > text" conflicts with "org mode to solve difficult problems". that comes > up from time to time (using dollar signs as delimiters for math is one > recent example, another is "-" being "filled" into column one and taken > as an item in a new list). > > it's a hard line to straddle. > > Greg > > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
