[DGD] Time and time zones

[bart at wotf.org]

To me it very much looks like DGD returns whatever it gets from the OS.
On my test env set to local time, I'm getting local time. On a second test env
set to UTC, I'm getting UTC.

Way of the Force uses the same approach as cloudlib, it lets users set their
time offset and DST, the host it runs on uses UTC.

Bart.

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:49:44 -0600, nikoroleva wrote
> Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So, just curious, but after a recent kerfuffle with the gentoo developers I
> > was curious about how DGD itself measures time.
> >
> > Is the time returned by kfun::time() in any particular time zone?
> >
> > My guess is that DGD itself doesn't bother with timezones so it's at the
> > mercy of whatever your host's clock is set at.
> >
> > Also, I would appreciate any caveats/discussion about handling of time and
> > time zones in general.
> 
> As far as I can tell, it's epoch time, the number of seconds since 1 
> Jan 1970.
> 
> Start with the Time object type in the cloudlib and go from there.
> Showing everything in UTC is the easiest but users could configure
> their timezone and daylight saving times.
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