I'm not thinking I will write a timezone library yet ;) Currently I get the user offset from Javascript (I know about non js- enabled browsers), so I think about _maybe_ not using timezones at all, but just the offset for displaying purpose. This would be the last chance try.
For now, I think I'll make it with the "hack" in the comment I linked in the second post. This seems to be the most affordable "error seen/time spent" solution out there, with the help of a setting if it doesn't work for some users. This is *very* frustrating. Florent On 23 sep, 15:54, Rob Biedenharn <r...@agileconsultingllc.com> wrote: > On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Florent wrote: > > > > > On Sep 23, 2:00 pm, Rob Biedenharn <r...@agileconsultingllc.com> > > wrote: > >> It can't be foolproof because the northern and southern hemispheres > >> have opposite seasons and when they observe daylight time is > >> understandably about a half-year off from the other hemisphere. I'm > >> sure (even without trying to check) that there are parts of each year > >> where pairs of time zones are either both observing daylight time or > >> not with the same UTC offset so the best that you could do was to > >> offer a small set of possible zones. > > >> -Rob > > >> Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com > >> r...@agileconsultingllc.com > > > True. Officially hate timezones. > > > I'm thinking about by-passing the Time.zone thing and implement a > > simple UTC + x conversion system. > > Am I going crazy? > > If you want to show a user a local time, you're going to have to deal > with DST even if only to give the user a way to change the offset > twice a year. > > If you start to think that you should implement your own TimeZone > library, then you might already be crazy. ;-) > > -Rob > > Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com > r...@agileconsultingllc.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
