Hi Peter, It is, but I have often wanted to put something along the lines of "Steve is in Califonia, he is 8 hours behind you". I could in theory publish the location and time zone independently but this isn't great if they actually linked.
Regards Spencer On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 15:34, Peter Waher wrote: > Hello Spencer. > > Isn’t time zone already defined in XEP-0082? > http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0082.html#sect-id310737 > > That is, if specifying a timestamp, XEP-0082 requires a Time Zone definition > according to the DateTime profile. > > Best regards, > Peter Waher > > From: Spencer MacDonald [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: den 4 december 2013 06:27 > To: XMPP Standards > Subject: Re: [Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: User Time Zone > > Although I agree that this should be an XEP in its own right, the user's > timezone is often tied to their location so would it also be useful to add a > timezone element to XEP-0080: User Location as well? > > > Regards > > > > Spencer > > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:50 PM, XMPP Extensions Editor <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP. > > Title: User Time Zone > > Abstract: This specification defines a payload format for communicating > information about a user's time zone. The payload format is typically > transported using the personal eventing protocol, a profile of XMPP > publish-subscribe specified in XEP-0163. > > URL: http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/peptzo.html > > The XMPP Council will decide in the next two weeks whether to accept this > proposal as an official XEP. > > > > >
