Re: [RFC] HTTP timezone
| From: | Stefanos Harhalakis | Date: | Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:15:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] HTTP timezone | ||
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On Sunday 10 June 2007, Richard Lynch wrote:
> On Sat, June 9, 2007 8:06 am, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> > Timezone: +0200
> >
> > that will specify their timezone offset. This way scripts will be able
> > to
> > provide appropriate date/time strings/representations and/or content.
>
> It's pretty useless and unreliable since user's clocks/timezone
> settings are incorrect far too often...
I'm only considering the timezone information. I believe that this is not the
proper way to think before making a start. The fact that many user's timezone
is incorrect doesn't mean that this is not needed. Lets just hope that one
day Windows will do the right thing and keep the time in UTC while displaying
it using the appropriate timezone.