[DB-SIG] DateTime: Changing the time value handling ?!

[Jim Fulton]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> >
> > M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > >
> > > When dealing with different time zones its better to have a
> > > set of specialized functions/classes. Time zone information
> > > is usually not stored together with date/time values. Most
> > > databases only work with broken down values and have no idea
> > > of the time zone the given values apply to. (And that's what
> > > I wrote the DateTime package for after all: to interface to
> > > databases ;-)
> >
> > ODMG stands for Object *Database* Management Group and the ODMG
> > standard I keep refering to and that includes time zone in its
> > Time and Timestamp classes is a *database* standard.
> 
> I know, but the database APIs, I'm familiar with, don't support any time
> zone specific data interchange. They simply return the broken down
> values you stored -- without doing any conversions or time zone
> checking.
> How would I store the time zone offset in those databases ?

I guess you don't.  But that doesn't mean you shouldn't make it 
possible to handle the time zone (offset) in the underlying type.

Jim

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