Subj : Re: Message Timezones
To   : Martin Rayburn
From : Tracker1
Date : Fri Apr 01 2022 22:30:01

On 3/31/22 13:53, Martin Rayburn wrote:
> Just a thought...
> 
> What if the time zone was derived from the location of the user's IP address?

You could do that... however most geoip services aren't the most 
accurate, not to mention that many are paid services, or otherwise 
commercial.  Sometimes having a free tier, but unreliable overall.

Date/Time rules get particularly tricky as the rules often change.  Such 
as date for daylight savings and zones/locations that don't have 
daylight savings.  It's a bit of a mess in practice.

It would be nice if most messages were tagged with their originating 
offset, then it's easy enough to convert to localized/client time.  I've 
been pushing for over a decade to have all services and communications 
that I touch save/transfer in UTC, where a local origin is stored with 
locality for any date/time not in UTC (airline flights, etc).
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Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
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