<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Nick Morrott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Here's an existing ticket if anyone's interested. Beirdo recently</div>
hinted he may look at it in the future.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It may take some time before that becomes a priority though. It is a significant amount of work to convert all date/time handling to UNIX epoch time... however, if we did at some point, the removal of many conversions to and from could give us a decent amount of extra CPU cycles, although likely not all that noticable these days with such fast processors. It could also allow us to remove timezone constraints as internally it would all be UTC, essentially, and the only time the timezone really would matter is on output to a human.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have many other things in my queue ahead of considering this massive of a change, so don't hold your breath :)</div></div>