- From: Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 07:50:14 +0900
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>, public-sysapps <public-sysapps@w3.org>, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, public-script-coord <public-script-coord@w3.org>
On May 10, 2013, at 7:23 , Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Norbert Lindenberg > <w3@norbertlindenberg.com> wrote: >> In an API that's designed around a Date instance, time zone directives "respectTimezone" or "ignoreTimezone" are therefore meaningless. If the API is intended to interpret time zones (I don't know whether it is), it needs a different data type to represent field based time with time zone information [7]. > > This isn't however accurate. The API does actually meaningfully work > right now, it's just not described well as discussed above. The > easiest way to describe how it works is through examples. There are a > couple here: > > http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/web-alarms/#crossing-timezone-boundaries How is the first example supposed to work? The Date object constructed has time value 1358780400000, which corresponds to 7:00 PST, but 10:00 EST. How does the implementation of the API know it should fire the alarm at time 1358769600000? Norbert
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