[wp-hackers] Timezone in RSS feeds

[Computer Guru]

I didn't think people cared, but if you strongly feel they do, I guess that's something else.

That was just my opinion obviously, and I'm sure you guys have more experience in the feeds field, so I'll step down here.

I bear no ill-feelings on this matter, I just felt that when it comes to feeds they should all stick to the same mold, so to speak.

Anyway, it's not my decision to make of course, I'm just giving the "alternative opinion" (or devil's advocate if you will). My argument is for the sake of standardization, but if there is a strong argument to the contrary....

Peace, 

CG
NeoSmart Technologies
http://neosmart.net/blog/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Nikolay Bachiyski
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:20 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Timezone in RSS feeds
> 
> 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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