[Bug 7868] what about time zones? which one is used? local (may be difficult to find out)? is this communicated to the user? can he change it?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7868


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-10-21 23:19:33 ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> Any calendar, reminder, booking etc. site.

I looked at a bunch, and I couldn't find any sites that asked for a date only
(no time) and yet used the 24-hour period corresponding to the user's
submission time zone, and not the date irrespective of time zone. Could you
provide a URL to one explicitly that I could look at?


> > as opposed to at the time of display
> 
> The problem may be that you think of a date as a string (to display). It's not.
> It has a *meaning*. A date is a point (or range) in time, and may be acted upon
> by the site/server. Please go back to comment 5 and think through it from the
> perspective of the server programmer.

I understand that the date has meaning. I just don't think sites are doing what
you think they're doing. I think the use case for a date control doesn't need a
time zone in practice.

For example, Google Calendar uses a date control only for events that are
time-zone agnostic — if I set an event to be on Thursday October 22nd 2009
while my time zone is UTC+12, and then change my time zone to UTC-12, the event
still claims to be on Thursday, even though there are no minutes in common for
those two events.

For timezone-dependent events, sites have date+time controls, which is
type=datetime.


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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I do not believe the use cases match what you describe.


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