- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:27:52 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Jim Ley wrote: > > Well I've yet to see the use cases that can't be resolved without the > need to submit UTC. I've given several; one is booking a phone conference on an international telephone conferencing bridge. You can't just give a time in that context without saying what that time means. > Since the whole point of this is to be backwards compatible, we can't > just leave it to UA's since there's no way to do this in legacy browsers > - and we'll lose backwards compatibility. Again, whatever server-side solution you use for the timezone-less solution you are advocating would be the one to use for the legacy case where the user's input didn't include a time zone specifier. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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