"Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@...> wrote in message news:024201c2dc48$687b9200$2000a8c0@.... ... east Any time is exact but not predicatable. -...
Gerhard Poul
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Mar 2, 2003 9:15 pm
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... What? ... Define what you mean by "reliable". If you store your current time and you're on an offset then you have extra trouble shifting that time later....
"Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@...> wrote in message news:000701c2e12a$90f35f60$2000a8c0@.... ... It means that a time in and of itself cannot...
Gerhard Poul
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Mar 3, 2003 11:51 am
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... Thus using ISO-8601 timestamps is an even better idea. That and they're language neutral. And also quite explicit in expressing the timezone, if any, ...
"Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@...> wrote in message news:003601c2e17c$067ced40$2000a8c0@.... ... some ... any, ... Maybe, but that doesn't...
Gerhard Poul
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Mar 3, 2003 12:33 pm
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(Note: this message is cross-posted, please check before replying) We are pleased to announce the 1.02 release of XML::RSS! This is the first stable release of...
Hello, The specification for <source> states: "The purpose of this element is to propogate credit for links, to publicize the sources of news items." Which is...
... everyone is ... Indeed :-) So what gives? Is that simply yet another but in Radio? Utter confusion about time zone? No matter how they are/could/should be...
... <sigh> It's so misunderstood and folks that don't get it just don't seem willing to get with it. GMT (aka UTC) is the one way everything can be reasonably...
... It's the ... All this is wonderful... but... doesn't make much sense... as all email clients are happily using time zone since the beginning of time......
... To you. ... Having been someone that's used e-mail 'since the beginning' I disagree with this assumption. ... Ah, but this isn't e-mail, is it? ... What...
"petite_lapin_blue" <petite_abeille@...> wrote in message news:b45e6n+vecg@.... ... I have to fully agree with you. I just don't get it why...
Gerhard Poul
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Mar 5, 2003 6:37 pm
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... The point is, that the client would have to convert from NY time (which may be daylight savings, depending on when it was created) to UTC/GMT (which is the...
... In email messages the date/time is expressed in a form that includes the UTC offset. The time on the message I'm replying to was in the email header as ...
<mof-rss-dev@...> wrote in message news:uckZ+we/vAfL092yn@.... ... server ... a ... Why exactly is it easier to convert from/to GMT...
Gerhard Poul
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Mar 5, 2003 8:22 pm
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Hi, "Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@...> wrote in message news:00cd01c2e342$97207a70$2000a8c0@.... ... assuming ... You're losing information...
Gerhard Poul
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Mar 5, 2003 8:30 pm
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... There is one. It's the W3CDTF format based on ISO8601. That's what the majority of other XML applications use. It's the form used by the Dublin Core. ...
... Uh, I've made the strongest comments about it and tools like Radio /still/ get it wrong. ... No, that's completely false. If you know where you are then...
Bill, what is it that you think Radio gets wrong? It gets the date-time from the operating system, and coverts it to GMT. Can't imagine what it could do...
It's not that it's doing anything wrong with how to handles getting the current timestamp. It's the conversion of a timestamp /out/ of the current zone offset....
... Yup, that is a nice simple, understandable, implementable spec and is also precise about using the offset. I agree that proper use of the time zone offset...
I don't understand -- is this when Radio is reading or writing feed(s)? Dave ... From: Bill Kearney To: RSS2-Support@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 05,...
... GMT. Can't imagine what it could do differently. ... What about _not_ converting it to GMT? The local time zone is just fine. No need to complicate your...
... shouldn't be ... with you ... timezone ... Yep. This is what this is all about: the host timezone. Frivolously converting everything to GMT result in the...
"Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@...> wrote in message news:017201c2e366$ea6f0970$2000a8c0@.... ... big ... that ... get ... different ... you're ...
Gerhard Poul
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Mar 6, 2003 2:18 pm
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Where is the DTD or W3C XML Schema for RSS 2.0? I haven't been able to find it. I found a DTD in this newsgroup, but it contained several significant defects. ...
... (whew, sigh of relief) I do understand where you're coming from and I'm not at all interested in forcing this on you. Dealing with timezone data is really...
... Now you're in an area where I'm extremely familiar. And you're wrong again. Geographic data from IP address is nearly useless. We track it on Syndic8 and...
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