Plea for sanity in f-spots date/time handling

[Nyall <nyall zombiepigs net>]

Hi all,

I know this issue has been raised time & time again, but it's such a
major hurdle in using f-spot that I'd love to see it discussed again and
hopefully finally resolved.

If I understand correctly, f-spot devs plan on adding a time-zone
feature in photo tags which *should* fix this problem. If so, is there
any time frame on when this is likely to happen? 

In the meantime, is it possible to have a checkbox for something like
'Always assume times are local time', which would bypass any corrections
f-spot tries to do for time zone & utc, and just show the time exactly
as it is in the photo metadata, and set times exactly as they are set in
the 'adjust time' dialog? Personally, I don't care about time zones, and
never will, but just want f-spot to show the dates correctly that I've
set on my photos. :(

(I should add - apart from this one issue I think f-spot is a fantastic
program, and I'm a big fan of all the devs who've put stacks of time and
hard work into making it the program it is today!)

Regards,
Nyall