[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #314: query.cc: $date returns time in GMT only

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#314: query.cc: $date returns time in GMT only
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 Reporter:  sage    |        Owner:  olly    
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal  |    Milestone:  1.1.1   
Component:  Omega   |      Version:  1.0.9   
 Severity:  normal  |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:          |    Blockedby:          
 Platform:  All     |     Blocking:          
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Changes (by olly):

  * milestone:  1.1.0 => 1.1.1


Comment:

 Further research reveals that you can't actually get the user's timezone
 from javascript.  You can get the current offset from UTC, but that
 doesn't tell you how much offset to apply for arbitrary dates - it could
 easily be 2 hours wrong (e.g. UK DST to NZ non-DST vs UK non-DST to NZ
 DST).

 The best option seems to be to write out javascript code to output the
 time_t values as a formatted date, like the patch I'll attach shortly.
 This doesn't seem ideal though - it's kind of
 klunky, and changing the date formatting is very fiddly and error prone.

 I don't think we need to hold up 1.1.0 for this, so moving the milestone
 setting.  If we come up with a clean fix (or decide the attached patch is
 actually OK) it can go in for 1.1.0 of course.

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