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corneliusroemer / pango-designation-dates

Contains dates on which each Pango lineage was designated
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Project assigns dates based on Central European Time #1

Open ciscorucinski opened 1 year ago

ciscorucinski commented 1 year ago

Current Behavior
get_designation_date.py retrieves the timestamps of commits based on Central European Time (CET).

Expected behavior
UTC would be a better timezone to base the dates on. However, then it would also be important to save time information, too. This would allow for use cases such as a person living in Korea create separate visualizations for an American, European, or local audience.

Additional context
If you look at the current XBB.1.5 sublineages (XBB.1.5.1 XBB.1.5.2 XBB.1.5.3), they were all designated in about 30 minutes of each other. However, since these were uploaded around midnight, CET, two of these sublineages are classified as being designated on the next day.

There is no programmatic way to dynamically and correctly batch these, and other designations, onto their correct days. With the standard UTC timestamp (including time), this can all be sorted correctly.

ciscorucinski commented 1 year ago

Is there a way to add time and timezone information to the dates? Right now it only shows the date. That would be highly beneficial.

This is a global project with people all over the world looking at these dates. Being able for people to convert the dates to their timezone would be beneficial.