- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:25:21 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
On 2013-01-08 01:47, Ian Hickson wrote: >> The next best choice would be to have datetime-with-timezone but >> unfortunately >> >> (1) Official database for all timezones does not exist >> (2) Official timezone names (or labels) do not exist >> (3) Timezones are subject to future political decisions >> >> The problems (1) and (2) make transferring the timezone information from >> the end user to the server very problematic and the problem (3) makes >> any work to fix (1) and (2) a bit pointless. This is because even if UA >> could successfully inform the server about the correct timezone, the >> server could be using a week old timezone data that is not up to the >> latest political events. Or the server might be using latest timezone >> data but the UA could be using three year old data. In either case, the >> absolute time in UTC could be different for the server and UA. > > Indeed. Sorry? <http://www.iana.org/time-zones> addresses (1) and possibly (2), no? Best regards, Julian
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