Re: ISSUE-106: Does having a timezone field make sense, should it be utfOffset or utcOffset and tz to better match vCard from Christopher Hunt on 2011-01-20 (public-device-apis@w3.org from January 2011)

From: Christopher Hunt <huntchr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:43:11 +1100
To: Device APIs and Policy Working Group WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>
Message-Id: <46C19C32-00F0-48DF-A629-1CEE028627A8@internode.on.net>

On 20/01/2011, at 2:56 AM, Device APIs and Policy Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:

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> ISSUE-106: Does having a timezone field make sense, should it be utfOffset or utcOffset and tz to better match vCard
utfOffset is not good enough alone given that has a temporal quality with regards to daylight savings time. A zoneinfo reference e.g. "Australia/Sydney" is much more meaningful as rules can be associated with this type of identifier.

Received on Thursday, 20 January 2011 08:41:02 UTC