Time zone offsets change with the stroke of a pen. Perhaps access to the Olson database may be of some help. Olson has time zone offsets and a history of them.
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:20 PM, David F. Skoll <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 16:47:43 -0800 > Allen Li <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was wondering if there was a simple way to set events irrespective > > of system timezone? > > No; that's one of Remind's glaring design deficiencies. (The other major > one is the inability to have one reminder with a duration that makes it > span multiple days.) > > Like `REM GMT Dec 1 AT 06:00` or something. > > You could fake it: > > REM 2013 Dec 1 AT [06:00 + minsfromutc('2013-12-01')] MSG 06:00 UTC > > but that would fail if you live more than six hours west of UTC. > It's also a pain to code the date twice. > > > Looking through the man page, it seems like I could jury rig > > something using tzconvert and global variables, but you would have to > > manually edit the time zone in the reminder file whenever you change > > the system time. > > No, minsfromutc() accesses the time zone information from the system. > > Regards, > > David. > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind > -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 | | 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 +-------------------| | 34825 34211 70679*82148 08651 32823 06647 | May the spirit | | 09384 46095 50582 23172 53594 08128 48111 | of pi spread | | 74502 84102 70193 85211 05559 64462 29489 | around the world. | | 54930 38196 44288 10975 66593 34461 28475 | PI VOBISCUM! | | 38196 44288 10975 66593 34461 28475 64823 +-------------------| | 37867 83165 27120 19091 45648 56692 34603 48610 45432 6648... | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ GnuPG/PGP key: 0xB07F9AAE _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
