Re: Value of a date in Numbers
Re: Value of a date in Numbers
- Subject: Re: Value of a date in Numbers
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:36:37 -0600
On Feb 3, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Luther Fuller wrote:
I think this is a feature. (In fact, I would think recording time
locally would be a bug.) Here's why.
However, if you use Applescript to get a date-time from Numbers and
enter it into iCal, the time will be off by the offset from GMT.
I was afraid of something like that. Here's a simple thought
experiment. Suppose someone on the other side of the globe creates a
file. Sometime later you get a copy of that file. It has a creation
date.
Question: Can you read that date? Accurate to the second?
Answer: Only if the creation date contains information about the time
zone where it was created. Preferably, the creation date is stored as
UTC and knows that.
I don't know if there are any standards for storing dates. There
should be.
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