[uf-discuss] hcalendar timezone, DST examples
Scott Reynen
scott at randomchaos.com
Fri May 12 12:09:50 PDT 2006
On May 12, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Scott Reynen wrote:
> I believe the most common flaw in vevents is currently missing or
> incorrect timezones. I was just looking at how timezones are shown
> in the examples, and discovered that they aren't. Every single
> example is marked as Z. On the live web, I don't see many actually
> converting their times to UTC, so I think the examples should
> probably reflect the more common use of offsets to encourage better
> timezone markup.
>
> I started by changing the first event to CST under DST. I also
> changed the timezone question in the FAQ to focus more on what
> people are more often doing (offsets):
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-examples
> http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-faq
>
> I'm still not entirely sure I understand timezones and DST
> correctly, so it would be good for others working with this issue
> to review.
Nevermind, none of that is there now. Ryan, why are you reverting my
changes? Is the complete lack of offset timezone examples a
feature? Looks like a bug to me.
Peace,
Scott
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