[activitystreams] Issue: Clarify that zone offsets in times do not indicate local time marked as i18n

r12a has just labeled an issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams as "i18n":

==  Clarify that zone offsets in times do not indicate local time ==
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This issue has support from others in the i18n WG.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#dates

> All properties with date and time values MUST conform to the 
"date-time" production in [RFC3339] with the one exception that 
seconds MAY be omitted.

We would like you to include a note in the spec to advise implementers
 that the zone offsets are not time zones, and while times with zone 
offsets work for timestamps they cannot be reliably converted to local
 wall time (or vice versa) without additional information and 
processing.  We see a lot of misunderstanding on this, which is why we
 are requesting a note.



See https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/331

Received on Friday, 8 July 2016 14:03:45 UTC