Hello Spencer. Ok. What about the Time Zone field in vCard? In combination perhaps with XEP-0292, or historical XEPs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev-22 It sounds as if the use case you describe is closely related to user information in general (and hence vCards). Best regards, Peter Waher From: Spencer MacDonald [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: den 4 december 2013 15:37 To: XMPP Standards Subject: Re: [Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: User Time Zone 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.
