Dealing with time zones in Elm seems more painful than it should be. For example, showing a UTC date in the users local time. Should be a simple task, but it seems like there's no way to do this that doesn't involve a third-party package or Native. Am I missing something?
I think it would be useful to have a new function in Date for getting the timezone offset. Just getting the offset in minutes should be enough for someone to create a more robust package for advanced usage.
It looks like this has been implemented in #739. Any chance that could be merged for 0.19? That PR has some other stuff too. I'm happy to create a new PR with just the timezone offset added if that would be useful.
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process-bot
on 16 Nov 2016
I've been waiting for this for a year. This is my second try, my Native extension was rejected.
Many apps will need these functions to canonicalize dates before speaking with backends.
Better luck next year, maybe.
shutej
on 30 Nov 2016
I noticed this was labeled as an "enhancement". UTC support is a critical requirement and I see several related PRs/issues from the past 2 years that have been closed yet still no support for UTC in the Core libraries. #739 looks pretty straightforward and should be merged in ASAP.
bowsersenior
on 9 Dec 2016
Tracking in #816
lukewestby
on 20 Jan 2017
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I noticed this was labeled as an "enhancement". UTC support is a critical requirement and I see several related PRs/issues from the past 2 years that have been closed yet still no support for UTC in the Core libraries. #739 looks pretty straightforward and should be merged in ASAP.