RE: [web-alarms] Remove timezone support from Task Scheduler API

Hi Chris,

+1 for removing TimezoneDirective

 

Best regards,

Marta

From: Christophe Dumez [mailto:ch.dumez@sta.samsung.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 10:05 AM
To: public-sysapps@w3.org
Subject: [web-alarms] Remove timezone support from Task Scheduler API

 

Hi,

It was proposed during the last SysApps face to face in Toronto to remove timezone support from the Task Scheduler API [1].
This would essentially mean removing the TimezoneDirective [2] from the API and pass a number of second since epoch to schedule a task instead of an EcmaScript Date (e.g. by using "Date.now() + n").

The change was proposed for several reasons:
- The TimezoneDirective is not very clear, may be confusing to the developers and makes the API more complex,
- The current timezone support is not sufficient to handle calendar use cases anyway since you cannot explicitly specify which timezone to use,
- The Date object may be removed from Web IDL [3] as its use was discouraged on es-discuss [4].

I am sending this message to the mailing list to gather broader feedback before updating the specification draft. Please let us know how you feel about this change.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/web-alarms/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/web-alarms/#timezonedirective
[3] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22824
[4] http://esdiscuss.org/topic/frozen-date-objects

Kr,


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