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It's frequently important to preserve the original time zone offset of a timestamp. Sending everything as UTC loses that information.
by hughw 13y ago
It's frequently important to preserve the original time zone offset of a timestamp. Sending everything as UTC loses that information.
- haberman 13y agoThere is nothing preventing you from sending a time zone offset (or an Olson timezone id like 'America/Los_Angeles') along with the Unix Time.
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoSure no problem. We just have to invent a new format.
- jessedhillon 13y agoThat's what JSON is for: {timestamp: xyz, tz: "America/Los_Angeles"}