And what in the case that the application is not running on the internet ? In banking software chances are very slim that the PC is connected.
David On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Ray Cromwell <[email protected]> wrote: > > John, A google hosted service would be great, sounds like a good, > valuable service, of use to everyone on the web. I don't mind asynchronously > fetching this data, because you typically have to ask the user which TZ he's > in anyway, unless you try to infer it from the browser's Date.toString() > method, which isn't always reliable. (Some browsers report actual TZ Common > names, others don't) > > -Ray > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:34 PM, John Tamplin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Ray Cromwell <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> Am I missing something? There doesn't appear to be a way to query for all >>> of the supported Common Timezones, which makes it problematic to construct a >>> UI dialog that asks the user to specify a TimeZone without hard coding. >>> Simple Timezones have the problem that they don't provide DST information, >>> which makes the behavior of DateTimeFormat wrong in some TZs. I'm wondering >>> if it makes sense to either 1) provide a default RPC service for obtaining >>> TZ related info (localized), or revisit the issue of providing full TZ >>> introspection using code splitting to reduce some of the inefficiency. >>> >> >> Work is in progress to provide a JSONP service, either provided by Google >> or where you can run a servlet on your own infrastructure, and fetch the >> timezone data that way. It is too large in its current form to include in >> the compiled output (though we may be able to improve that for certain >> common cases in the future) and the async nature of the interface means it >> won't be transparent to user code, but it should be out for review shortly. >> >> -- >> John A. Tamplin >> Software Engineer (GWT), Google >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
