FW: [I18N] questions about date-local

FYI, Hixie's response.

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect (Lab126)
Chair (W3C I18N, IETF IRI WGs)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:43 PM
To: Phillips, Addison
Cc: public-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: [I18N] questions about date-local

On Wed, 12 May 2010, Phillips, Addison wrote:
> 
> The I18N WG has tasked [1] me with asking your WG about the usage 
> scenarios you envision for the 'date-local' input type (see [2]). Our 
> concern is that it is unclear what format this field produces, why this 
> field omits local time zone, and whether the format of the field is 
> sufficiently specified. We often see problems with time and date values 
> and would like to better understand the implications of this field type 
> and the usage scenarios you have developed for it.

It's intended for situations where the time zone is implied out-of-band. 
For example, flight reservation systems determine the time zone from the 
location of the airport (all flight reservation interfaces work in local 
time zones).

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