On 2/17/13 4:37 PM, Dan Covill wrote:
> On 02/17/13 03:43 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>> West-coast user entering stuff on East-coast user's calendar (would want to 
>> see that
>> calendar in the other user's timezone). Wait, that's still a client problem 
>> as the
>> dates would still be UTC on the server, and I guess there'd be some sort of 
>> user
>> table with the tz info.
>>
>> Paul
> 
> Dave Taylor posted on this topic at some length last week.  It's not an easy 
> problem,
> from a Data standpoint, from an Application standpoint, or from a User 
> standpoing.

It's a tricky problem yes. Just another argument that we'd all be better off 
thinking
in UTC.

Paul



_______________________________________________
Post Messages to: [email protected]
Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox
OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech
Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox
This message: 
http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected]
** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the 
author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added 
to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

Reply via email to