Re: comments on Atom 0.2

[Steve Jenson <sjenson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri Aug 08 08:12:25 PDT 2003, Nelson Minar <nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >If I post in PST but don't tag it with <issued>, then the only date the
> >blog tool has is the modified date, which is in UTC.  How would it know
> >the proper timezone to translate that date into when showing the date
> >you posted with?
>
> I hadn't thought about that. So we'd like to know two different
> things: the absolute time that the entry was created, and the local
> time (to convey things like "this is a 3am rambling").
>
> I still think <issued> should be optional; I don't think most blogs
> will usefully distinguish between the two, so it shouldn't be
> required. I also wonder if maybe best practice is not to make
> <modified> be *local time* with a timezone offset rather than UTC.
> That way you get both absolute time and the local time in one little
> timestamp. That may pose a problem for sites like Blogger and
> LiveJournal, though, do they know what timezone their user is in?

I think you're asking if we know what TimeZone a blog is in, which we
do. For a specific user, we don't, but an Atom feed can only come from
a blog.


-Steve