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I wish HTTP requests submitted time zone information.
by antimora 15y ago
I wish HTTP requests submitted time zone information.
- mooism2 15y agoJust the current offset from UTC, or including the whole daylight savings malarkey?
- AndrewDucker 15y agoThe actual Timezone would be great (something like Europe/London, etc.) Using the same format as the tz database: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Names_of_time_zones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Names_of_time_zones
- mooism2 15y agoI suppose now ICANN maintain it, it makes it easier for it to become an internet standard.
- klodolph 15y agoYou can get the offset with JavaScript, at least.
- zb 15y agoIt has been proposed several times. 2008: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sharhalakis-httptz-05 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sharhalakis-httptz-05 1995 - shot down because (paraphrasing) "I don't need this so neither should you": http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/ange/archives/archives-95/http-wg-archive/0521.html http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/ange/archives/archives-95/htt... The general consensus seems to be that since this can never be all things to all people, we can't ever implement it. To me it seems like this is crying out for a Worse is Better solution.
- mnot 15y agoI think we'll see this discussion come around again soon; maybe it'll stick this time.
- dochtman 15y agoLook at this recent Mozilla thread, asking the same question: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_thread/thread/8724106c2dce0be2# http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_t... It offers reasons why it's a bad idea, and an alternative (in HTML5 instead of HTTP).