Hello Lachlan;
I _think_ (correct me if I'm wrong) Florijan would like to store a
logical date rather than a timestamp. For example, he would like to
store the date 2008-09-28. The requirement being that the same date
is applicable to all timezones because it is composited from year/
month/day and is thus independent of timezones. An example where this
might be useful is to store birthdays. For example, a birthday is
1980-08-08. If I should decide to live in Munich for a while (I
presently live in Auckland) then the same birthday applies, but if I
stored it as a timestamp then it would have shifted to another day
while I live in Munich. Hence the difficulty storing these things as
timestamps.
cheers.
When you say textually - it appears you mean relatively i.e.,
translated into each users local timezone - given that you say
you'll represent this date in up to 3 possible days depending on the
user's local time.
So again, I don't understand why you want to distort the date
initially provided rather than simply storing it as its GMT
equivalent and then presenting it according to whatever timezone is
required - which the SimpleDateFormat(ter) will do automatically.
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Andrew Lindesay
www.lindesay.co.nz
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