[wp-hackers] Timezone in RSS feeds

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

2007/4/10, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net>:
> OK, then you should understand fully why it doesn't matter to the end user
> what timezone it was published in.
>
> I'm in +2 GMT. I don't give a damn whether Scoble was having lunch or dinner
> when he made his last post - All I care is when it was published.

Computer Guru, I do care. Really.

>
> UTC is the universal base standard for times. Hence, it's only natural that
> it *and only it* should be in the feed.

Why *only it*, if the standard allows other timezones too?

> Why break standards and conventions for something as pointless as local TZ
> data?

What standards and conventions shall we break if we put the timezone?

Happy hacking,
Nikolay.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> > bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Sneddon
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:26 PM
> > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Timezone in RSS feeds
> >
> >
> > On 10 Apr 2007, at 17:08, Computer Guru wrote:
> >
> > > You're not understanding my point.
> >
> > I understand it well.
> >
> > >
> > > RSS feeds are supposed to be machine-readable universable syndication
> > > formats.
> >
> > I know – I'm the author of a feed parser library (SimplePie) with
> > thousands of users.
> >
> > > When dealing with standards and humans don't have to read what's
> > > there, you
> > > serve as little info as possible that can be translated to give the
> > > complete
> > > picture, and wherever you can, you stick to the "base" formats.
> >
> > The complete picture would be telling the user what timezone the item
> > was published in.
> >
> > >
> > > Your blog serves UTC time == it doesn't have to serve the current
> > > time + the
> > > UTC offset.
> > >
> > > So long as the feed readers are doing the conversion, why should
> > > your blog
> > > have to bother with UTC offsets, DST, multiple TZs, user-specific
> > > TZ, etc.
> >
> > It gives further information that the user may want. It doesn't cost
> > WP anything to give the extra information (±[0-9]{4} is a single
> > character longer than \x20GMT).
> >
> >
> > - Geoffrey Sneddon
> >
> >
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