[GNC] Security timezone

[Fred Tydeman]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 7:03 AM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Nope. Whoever implemented that 20 years ago didn't hook it up to anything
> and nobody has since. Maybe because the implementation itself isn't very
> useful. It's saved as a string, and only  "Asia/Tokyo", "Australia/Sydney",
> "America/New_York", "America/Chicago", "Europe/London", or "Europe/Paris"
> are available. To apply it to a time would require conversion to a
> gmtoffset.
>
> But once you had that what would you do with it? Quotes almost never have
> a time on them. I guess you could apply a rule that says that if right now
> is between 0900 and 1600 on the indicated date (quotes do usually have
> dates) in the security's time zone then that's the time of the quote,
> otherwise it's 1600 in that timezone on the indicated date. The quote
> display would have to be tz-sensitive too. I'm not at all convinced that
> doing all of that would materially improve anything, and implementing it
> would be a lot of work.
>

Would it be correct and helpful if
  Currently, the timezone setting is ignored
were added to the Investment section on creating a new security
in the Gnucash Guide?