[Remind-Fans] Time Zone-neutral events

[Theodore M Rolle, Jr.]

Time zone offsets change with the stroke of a pen.
Perhaps access to the Olson database may be of some help.  Olson has time
zone offsets and a history of them.


On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:20 PM, David F. Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 16:47:43 -0800
> Allen Li <cyberdupo56 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if there was a simple way to set events irrespective
> > of system timezone?
>
> No; that's one of Remind's glaring design deficiencies.  (The other major
> one is the inability to have one reminder with a duration that makes it
> span multiple days.)
>
>  Like `REM GMT Dec 1 AT 06:00` or something.
>
> You could fake it:
>
> REM 2013 Dec 1 AT [06:00 + minsfromutc('2013-12-01')] MSG 06:00 UTC
>
> but that would fail if you live more than six hours west of UTC.
> It's also a pain to code the date twice.
>
> > Looking through the man page, it seems like I could jury rig
> > something using tzconvert and global variables, but you would have to
> > manually edit the time zone in the reminder file whenever you change
> > the system time.
>
> No, minsfromutc() accesses the time zone information from the system.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
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