On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 09:42 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > We do have a spec for "Entity Time"... > > http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0202.html
Sorry, I had actually seen this, I should have referenced it in my first mail. The problems I see with the XEP-0202 approach and the advantages of adding a 'timezone' element to the XEP-0080 are: * The XEP-0202 approach requires you to poll all your contacts as there is no change notification. * Having both location and timezone information in one PEP node guarantees atomicity. For example, it's easy to get into a situation where the XEP-0202 timezone reports Europe/London and the location PEP node reports you're in San Francisco. * If you are publishing your location anyway in the XEP-0080 PEP node then it's one less thing to change, from the perspective of the client implementers and network traffic. One advantage of XEP-0202 over the XEP-0080 approach is that the latter will not work on Google's servers. How about: said new 'timezone' element in the XEP-0080 PEP node which cross-references XEP-0202 in an attempt to keep them in sync? -- Jonny Lamb
