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Re: time zones in annotation dates

From: Pierre Queinnec <queinnec@essi.fr>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 23:16:29 +0100
Message-ID: <3E6525BD.8050006@essi.fr>
To: Brent Hendricks <brentmh@ece.rice.edu>
Cc: www-annotation@w3.org 

Brent Hendricks wrote:
> Adding the 'Z' would be sufficient to specify the point in time (and be 
> ISO8601 compliant).  But sending UTC will lose the information about 
> which timezone the poster was in, which could be useful.  If you send 
> local time + timezone, the server can retain that info.
> 
> --Brent
> 

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but i'm using ZAnnot 0.3 and the dates 
are sent like this:
a:created="2003/02/06 11:28:08 +0100"
d:date="2003/02/06 11:28:08 +0100"

Shouldn't they be in ISO 8601 format, as specified in the Annotea 
Protocol document?
Thanks a lot,
Pierre Queinnec.
Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2003 17:20:55 GMT

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