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- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:29:49 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17989
Summary: i18n-ISSUE-91: 15 minute time zones
Product: HTML WG
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: other Hixie drafts (editor: Ian Hickson)
AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
QAContact: contributor@whatwg.org
CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
This was was cloned from bug 16961 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-05-07 17:15:00 +0000
Original reporter: Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com>
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#0 Addison Phillips 2012-05-07 17:15:05 +0000
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2.5.5.5 Global dates and times
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/common-microsyntaxes.html#global-dates-and-times
The note on time zone offsets says in part: "...and the minutes component of
offsets of actual time zones is always either 00, 30, or 45." Really this is
arbitrary and prone to change. The total range of time zones also changes from
time to time. I would suggest inserting a "at the time this document was
published" caveat such that innocent readers are not caught by surprise by a
new 15 minute time zone offset or by more monkey business surrounding the IDL.
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#1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-05-08 00:16:02 +0000
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The document is republished every few minutes, so that wouldn't help
much.
If the time zones change such that this note is wrong, we'll fix the note.
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#2 Addison Phillips 2012-05-08 00:51:05 +0000
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It wouldn't hurt to make the change, though. It is sometimes useful to remind
people that time zones are subject to (actually quite frequent) change. A lot
of implementers are blissfully unaware of that fact.
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#3 Addison Phillips 2012-05-08 00:52:03 +0000
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And I should add: it may be better if implementations, tests, etc. didn't
assume these values were true in a hardcoded fashion.
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