- From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:46:20 +0100
- To: Christopher Hunt <huntchr@gmail.com>
- Cc: Device APIs and Policy Working Group WG <public-device-apis@w3.org>
Hi Christopher, Le jeudi 20 janvier 2011 à 11:43 +1100, Christopher Hunt a écrit : > 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. We realize that, but one difficulty that appeared when we reviewed this issue during our call yesterday is that the vCard RFC uses two properties to denote the timezone of a given contact: * a UTC-OFFSET property that is defined as hh:mm difference to UTC * a TZ property, with an undefined format Since compatibility with vCard is one of the design requirements of our API, it's not clear yet whether we can usefully define a proper timezone attribute (defined with a real timezone identifier), or if we are reduced to use the less adequate but better defined utcOffset approach. Dom
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