Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr> wrote:
Paul POULAIN wrote:
I suggest the coding guideline that scripts maintain the date in local syspref-defined I would have preffered to use iso in the code and format only for outputting, but let's go with the solution you suggest. The important
Ryan Higgins a écrit : thing is to have a single method to handle dates !
I would prefer ISO-format UTC, but also prefer a single method. I don't think the UK has one standard format, with opinion varying between N Mon YYYY and Day, Nth Month YYYY and so on, so I could forsee some of my servers having different settings and potentially confusing me when working to develop fixes on a remote server that doesn't happen on my test servers.
I you choose local time, are you sure that scripts will behave correctly when there is time-shifting (several country such as France add and remove one hour one time per year) ? I do not look at the code, so I do not have any hints if the answer is yes or no. This is just a classical issue with local time.
Isn't France itself in multiple timezones, once you include DOM-TOM? Also USA. Again, a classic problem with using local time internally. Will that cause us problems? Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/