On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Norbert Lindenberg < [email protected]> wrote:
> The time zone the user wants to use, and therefore sets in the OS, is not > always tied to the current location. For example, on a flight from San > Francisco to Frankfurt I care about Pacific Time and Central European Time, > but not the other time zones I fly over. There are also locations for which > there is no well-defined mapping to a time zone, e.g., disputed border > areas or regions where different population groups use different time zones. > This same issue applies to geolocation and to absolute time. I want the computer to think it is where and when I tell it that it should think it is. However, this does kill my observation that the polling could be very infrequent. There's no limit to the speed users can change their minds; especially since the "user" in question isn't necessarily human. > > Norbert > > > On Jun 17, 2014, at 18:00 , Andrea Giammarchi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > without reinventing the wheel or changing it, I think timezone is very > close to geolocation so why not > > > > navigator.geolocation.getTimeZone(success, error) > > > > asd > > > > navigator.geolocation.watchTimeZone(success, error) > > > > ? > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Domenic Denicola < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Interesting questions in that thread about what to do about time zone > changes. An event for time zone changes seems important, but we don't > currently have any precedent for standard library events in ECMAScript. > > > > Object.observe change records? A synthetic change event seems perfect > for this use case. > > > > (Related, although not what I'm suggesting above: > http://amasad.me/2014/03/16/why-im-excited-about-objectobserve "Evented > Programming" header.) > > _______________________________________________ > > es-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > > es-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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