{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/47","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/47/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/47/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/47/events","html_url":"https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/47","id":66296242,"number":47,"title":"Time zones / Time references","user":{"login":"bmu","id":1622906,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1622906?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu","html_url":"https://github.com/bmu","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bmu/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/labels/api","name":"api","color":"fef2c0"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/labels/documentation","name":"documentation","color":"bfe5bf"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"84b6eb"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/milestones/4","html_url":"https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/milestones/0.3.0","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/milestones/4/labels","id":1174049,"number":4,"title":"0.3.0","description":"","creator":{"login":"wholmgren","id":4383303,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4383303?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren","html_url":"https://github.com/wholmgren","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"open_issues":9,"closed_issues":21,"state":"open","created_at":"2015-06-21T17:14:48Z","updated_at":"2016-03-16T01:57:50Z","due_on":"2016-03-22T07:00:00Z","closed_at":null},"comments":30,"created_at":"2015-04-04T09:15:21Z","updated_at":"2016-03-16T15:58:31Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I think we should make sure, that time zones, other time references are used correctly. \r\nWe can have time stamps given as UTC, really related to a time zone, local time (without DST), mean solar time, true solar time, ...? This is an everyday problem from my experience, so we should be able to handle all of these formats at least in the future. \r\nFor now it could be ok to define, that all times should be given as UTC and leave all time conversion issue to the user.\r\n\r\nAs pandas has [support for Julian dates since 0.14](http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0140-enhancements) ([this](https://github.com/pydata/pandas/pull/4041) is the pull request). I was thinking about creating a pull request to implement `to_solar_time` in pandas. However this is not easy to implement and I am not sure, if they accept it. But this way all time conversion would be in pandas an we could implement thinks based on pandas.\r\n \r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/comments/197396265","html_url":"https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/47#issuecomment-197396265","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/47","id":197396265,"user":{"login":"wholmgren","id":4383303,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4383303?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren","html_url":"https://github.com/wholmgren","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wholmgren/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-16T15:58:30Z","updated_at":"2016-03-16T15:58:30Z","body":"@bmu a Santa Clara milestone is good idea and it's great to hear that you'll be able to attend. Did you rsvp to Josh Stein? I did not see your name on a recent list of attendees.\r\n\r\n@dacoex and others: We don't yet know exactly what the agenda will be, but I expect that there will be a way to contribute remotely. We'll still be using GitHub, of course.\r\n\r\nI'll make a milestone and a new issue for further discussion."}}