Re: [Ruby-DBI-devel] (fwd) Bug in Ruby::DBI?

[Michael N. <mne...@nt...>]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:21:19AM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:
> At 12:13 +0200 5/30/03, Michael Neumann wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >What do you think?
> >For me it seems natural to use the local timezone instead of GMT.
> 
> Stefano's right that datetime values in MySQL have no timezone
> information.
> 
> But the time returned is in the *server's* local timezone.

So, if we don't know the server's timezone, the best we could do is to
assume GMT (this at least would be determinant). Of course this
behaviour should be documented somewhere.

Would you agree?


Regards,

  Michael