A suggestion for HTTP: that clients send a Timezone header in the request, describing the timezone of the user. This would be very useful when presenting dates and times to the user; I would envisage using this in a CGI script that generated dates on the fly. The header would be a request header. Syntax: Timezone = "Timezone" ":" zone zone would have the RFC 822 definition: zone = numeric-zone | ascii-zone | military-zone numeric-zone = ( "+" | "-" ) 4digit ascii-zone = 2*3alpha military-zone = alpha I would suggest that the numeric form be recommended; it may even be better to only allow this form. There is the obvious problem of how you can determine the true time zone for a user. As a sensible default, the client program could use the timezone of the computer on which it is running. Alternatively, I could imagine a client having an option the user can set to choose the timezone. David Robinson. (drtr1@cam.ac.uk)Received on Thursday, 23 March 1995 10:12:11 EST
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