I have come in late on this discussion, where Reinhard_Pötz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <event start="2004-04-20T19:00">Mom's Birthday
suggested a time event for calendaring. I would recommend looking at the HR-XML (www.hr-xml.org) specification for date-times, which are useful for specifying the time of events more precisely. http://ns.hr-xml.org/2_2/HR-XML-2_2/CPO/DateTimeDataTypes.pdf The problem exists when several users are using the same calendaring system. Perhaps your time format implies UTC - in that case, HR-XML would only add a "Z" to the end. > <event start="2004-04-20T19:00Z">Mom's Birthday However, using their syntax, you could just as easily include not only the absolute time, but an indication of the time zone difference when the person creating event created it. > <event start="2004-04-20T19:00-05:00">Mom's Birthday Think of that as it may be useful for clearing up discrepancies later on, which can be traced back to time zone differences. "I placed an order at 14:20, clearly within your business hours. Why didn't I get that shipped Monday? Answer: Your order entry indicates that you are in the XXX time zone. The distribution center is 6 time zones ahead, and their work hours are 8-6, in the YYY time zone." Jeff Conrad __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
