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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading to internal DateTime
From: karsten@typo3.org (Karsten Dambekalns)

Hi Derick.

Derick Rethans wrote:
> This is not the correct thing to do, as you will lose timezone 
> information. The W3C format only stores UTC offsets (in the form of 
> +00:00). However, that same UTC offset can be used in different areas 
> with different DST changes. Best thing is to store in Unix timestamps.

And how does a unix timestamp preserve timezone information? Or am I 
completely off track?

Regards,
Karsten