Re: [O] Time-zone in dates

[Nick Dokos]

Eric S Fraga <address@hidden> writes:

> On Monday, 29 Jun 2015 at 21:17, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> The only reliable way of doing that is to use UTC as the "internal"
>> representation and translate to/from local time on external
>> display/input *only*.  In the case of org mode, the "internal"
>> representation is user-visible, so that can cause confusion and some
>> head-scratching. But *any* other method is going to be a nightmare
>> (damhikt).
>
> This may be the correct approach although I worry about losing
> information by only storing UTC.  Whether this information loss is
> important or not is difficult to predict.  It may be of ephemeral
> importance only.

In what way are you losing information?