Re: Time Zone.

[Roland Mas <lolando debian org>]

Pat Suwalski, 2008-04-28 17:36:43 -0400 :

> Now you see why f-spot should not be handling timezones? There are a
> million scenarios to handle. Without timezone handling, f-spot could
> just show the date as it appears in the photo and save a lot of
> headache.

If you only want to display a date, then fine.  But remember we're
talking about a computer program here, which we have come to expect to
do smart things like sort according to dates, or filter according to a
date range, or that kind of stuff.  You just can't do these things
reliably with just a string without TZ info.  For instance, a picture
shot at "2008:10:26 03:15:00" may actually bave been shot before
another one known to EXIF as "2008:10:26 02:45:00" (end of DST in
Western Europe).

Roland.
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