- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:37:24 +0100
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:27:52 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > 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. Which is trivially solved everywhere, by asking for a time in the context of UTC, often with help saying what the equivalent times are in various timezones, this isn't a problem that I've seen need solving. > > 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. It's not a server side solution in use today, it's a client-side solution, the questions have to be asked differently, you can't ask the same question unless you require the users to enter in UTC, which I hope you'll agree is ridiculous. Does anyone else think UTC submission is a good thing that they'll use regularly other than Hixie? Jim.
Received on Wednesday, 30 June 2004 08:37:24 UTC