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Subject: Re: [office-comment] Re: [office] Date and Timezone: draft text
2008/7/6 Leonard Mada <discoleo@gmx.net>: > Hello everyone, > > Please see my comments below. > > David A. Wheeler wrote: >> >> Dave Pawson: >> > Outsider view. >> > Not a solution. Just more of an interop problem. >> > Use iso8601 inclusive of TZ. >> >> We already use ISO 8601, which supports indicating timezones. >> Timezone information is _optional_ in ISO 8601, though, >> so _not_ indicating the timezone is _still_ compatible with ISO 8601. Agreed. 21st Century and I18N might suggest TZ needs to be included. >> >> There is no timezone data in the built-in "Date" type of spreadsheets. >> Writing out a timezone marker (such as "Z" for UTC) would be WRONG, >> because there is NO such information in a spreadsheet. >> >> I think it'd be great to extend spreadsheets to provide proper >> support for timezones, but that turns out to be: >> 1. Nontrivial. >> 2. Implemented by NO spreadsheets But required for common business purposes IMHO. The argument would be reasonable for a toy application. Not for the target audience of ODF. >> >> I think it'd be inappropriate to do major surgery on a basic >> type when there's no experience with such changes. Let's standardize >> on where there _IS_ agreement first. > > Having NO support for time-zones is a little bit shortsighted in the age of > globalisation. +1 Perhaps it's not easy. If we wish to provide a date facility to users perhaps the effort is worthwhile. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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