[Standards-JIG] Communicating timezone information

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Maciek Niedzielski wrote:
> Chris Mullins wrote:
>> Maciek Niedzielski Wrote:

>> I don't see why we don't use the standard Xml time format here.
> 
> Probably because this protocol is sooooooooo old ;)
> Its time format is different than in all other JEPs.
> 
> Maybe these are enough reasons to write a replacement?
> New protocol would
> 1) follow JEP-0082 (Jabber Date and Time Profiles) to express current time
> 2) provide timezone offset in a standard format (like "[+|-]hh:mm" offset)

I've thought about forcing iq:time to use the JEP-0082 format. What
would be the transition issues?

> And PEP fans could publish the information (just the timezone, of course
> ;)) via PEP.

I'll look at add TZ to JEP-0154 as well.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml

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