[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Date, Time and Time Zones

[Matthias Kuhn]

For what it's worth ... +1

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:31 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 at 04:10, C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Last year there was a discussion on date, time, and timezones in QGIS.
> Back then the discussion was that QGIS uses the QDateTime object which
> supports timezones, but QGIS does not expose timezones anywhere. This I
> understand because time zones are the ultimate pain.
> >
> > I recently released a "Date/Time Tools" plugin (
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/datetimetools/) to start providing some
> date/time/time zone conversions and support. I was thinking of providing
> additional processing algorithms that would create a QDateTime field with
> the timezone set, but the question I have is whether a vector layer were
> saved to something like a GPKG would the timezone even be preserved? It
> wouldn't be preserved with a ShapeFile. If timezones are not preserved then
> the only way to provide a date, time, timezone would be as an ISO8601
> string (2007-01-14T21:05:02Z or 2007-01-14T06:55:53-0800).
> >
> > Is there currently any work going on for time zone support in QGIS that
> I am unaware of?
>
> No, but it's **sorely** needed. We should start a QEP discussion to
> collect thoughts here.
>
> While (as Even has pointed out) GPKG has quite rudimentary time zone
> support we support other formats and databases which have full support
> for time zones (eg postgres), so there's definitely value in seeing
> first class time zone support in QGIS!
>
> Nyall
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