Timezone needed?

[Martin Konold]

Am Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 12:52 schrieb Joon Radley:

Hi Joon,

> > We only require the UTC timezone no other timezone. If the
> > timezone is missing it is a "local time".

I try to rephrase: The normal case is using UTC. The exception is to not 
specify any timezone which shall be interpreted as local time.

> "local time" where? 

wherever the client currently is.

> How do I translate it to UTC so that I can translated 
> it to my local time?

Local time by definition is not translated but used literally.

> Or are we abandoning the idea that the date time 
> format can work across time zones?

No, we normally use UTC only. Local time as an exception is reserved for some 
very special use cases which cannot be modeled with a fixed UTC notation.

Regards,
-- martin
P.S.: I am happy with the recent change from Bo to the date definition so 
don't lets beat a dead horse ;-)

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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