corporate win--their requirements

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Sat Sep 28 07:20:31 UTC 2002


David Miller wrote:
> On 9/27/02 10:16 PM -0600, Christopher A. Aillon wrote:
>>Ok so let me clarify.  justdave's intent (AIUI) was to store this in the
>>database after submitting with a form.  My intent is that we should not store
>>this stuff in the db.  Just rely on the client to do it.  Write JS that
>>adjusts
>>the times by the offset if necessary.  I travel in between timezones and want
>>this to just work without me fiddling around in preferences.  I don't
>>want to be
>>in NY and see the time in CA.
> 
> Ah, yeah, but then it always depends on the user having Javascript
> anyway...  

And makes things really complicated with international date formats. Far 
easier to do all this server-side.

Gerv




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