- From: Nicolas Froidure <froidure_nicolas@yahoo.fr>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:54:59 +0100
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 27/11/2012 09:39, Mikko Rantalainen wrote: > Nicolas Froidure, 2012-11-13 12:51 (Europe/Helsinki): > >> In my opinion, it's normal that datetime and datetime-local have >> timezone and date/time don't. A date is timezone independant and time is >> more a duration then a time relative to a particular instant of a >> particular day. >> > Unfortunately, "date" is definitely NOT timezone independent. When do > you think "2012-11-28" does start? Some possible "correct choices": > > 2012-11-27T16:00:00Z (Googleplex in Mountain View, California) > 2012-11-28T00:00:00Z (UTC) > 2012-11-28T02:00:00Z (Europe/Helsinki, my time zone) > 2012-11-28T11:00:00Z (Ian's time zone, I believe) > I think you're wrong. My birthday is 1983-04-28, i'll not program a party on 2012-04-29 if i live on a different timezone. I don't know the time of my birth, i just remember the date. So, for me a date is a generalization of a time with an error range of 24h. If you want to save a time, just use a datetime field. I you ask a date you probably won't to save a precise time, just a day. Christmas day, a birthday or the mother's day. Given that things, i suppose a date is timezone independent. --- Nicolas Froidure
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