Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-11 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Monday 11 June 2007 18:15, Lester Caine wrote: > calender of events over a change in daylight saving I NEED to know !!! I believe that I finally understand your thoughts. You mean that you need to use the timezone information to know when in the future the time will change (or in the past).

Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-11 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Monday 11 June 2007 16:05, Lester Caine wrote: > Timezone information is only of use for the CURRENT day - even if it is > wrong. It is ESSENTIAL that any changes also include the daylight saving > information. Since this is not included, all current sites handling event > related information in

Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-10 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Sunday 10 June 2007, Tijnema wrote: > To get back to the point, I think that the timezone should be defined > on what time it actually is at his PC, and what time it is on > time.nist.gov for example, and not lookng at some setting... Timezone > setting is often wrong, people just update their t

Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-10 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Sunday 10 June 2007, Tijnema wrote: > On 6/9/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, June 9, 2007 8:06 am, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > > > Timezone: +0200 > > > > > > that will specify their timezone offset. This way scripts will be ab

Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-09 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Sunday 10 June 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Sat, June 9, 2007 8:06 am, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > > Timezone: +0200 > > > > that will specify their timezone offset. This way scripts will be able > > to > > provide appropriate date/time strings/represe

Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-09 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Saturday 09 June 2007, Stut wrote: > Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >> I meant people using PHP to write programs also. I would dispute your >> assertion that the majority of dynamic web pages are written in PHP. I >> would accept an assertion that PHP is one of the most wid

Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-09 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Saturday 09 June 2007, Stut wrote: > > Just wanted the opinion of PHP people/developers since PHP programmers > > will be most affected by this. Can you point me to the proper php related > > list to ask? > > I fail to see how "PHP programmers will be most affected by this" since > it would eq

Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-09 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Saturday 09 June 2007, Daniel Brown wrote: > On 6/9/07, Stefanos Harhalakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm currently writting and Internet Draft candidate to describe an HTTP > > header that will be used to transfer timezone information from browsers > >

[PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone

2007-06-09 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Hello there, I'm currently writting and Internet Draft candidate to describe an HTTP header that will be used to transfer timezone information from browsers to servers. Compliant browsers will need to send a timezone string: Timezone: +0200 that will specify their timezone offset. This way s