On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:42:46 -0600, Robert Birdsall wrote:

>Seems unnecessary and parochial ;)
>
>Shouldn't the host/server send the date/time to the display (client/server, I

[as UTC, I presume you mean]

>don't really care) and let it decide how to display the time?
>After all, if I'm at a desktop in Uruguay, why should I have to care whether
>the host/server is in Manhattan or Zimbabwe?

Yup.

>Hmm, what display attribute could be used to indicate a temporal field?
>
I suppose one could define one in XML.  Something like:

<TIME>UTC="2010-11-09 15:42:46.000"</TIME>

... and let CSS (or whatever) handle it.  But I'm way out of
my element.

-- gil

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