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List:       php-general
Subject:    Re: [PHP] [RFC] HTTP timezone
From:       Tijnema <tijnema () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-06-10 11:31:08
Message-ID: d8269d910706100431o2ca9b31jdb10aa3dcbee3813 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6/10/07, Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@priest.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 10 June 2007, Tijnema wrote:
> > To get back to the point, I think that the timezone should be defined
> > on what time it actually is at his PC, and what time it is on
> > time.nist.gov for example, and not lookng at some setting... Timezone
> > setting is often wrong, people just update their time to match the
> > time of their watch. This sets the UTC time wrong too, but still
> > displays the right time to the user. So if you compare this time to
> > time on web servers that are allways right, and you compare the
> > difference between that, then you know the timezone that is probably
> > right.
>
>  Timezone is a property of the user and some times of the session. It is not
> a property of a system. Different users of a system may use different
> timezones (unless they use Windows where they can't).
>
>  Anyway, I strongly believe that the issue of providing the correct timezone
> should be a concern of the end user and the browser. Any error checking and
> workarounds should be performed by those two and not by the server side
> scripts.
>
>  In any way, there is no guarantee that the timezone information provided by
> clients will be correct. That's why it should only be used for informational
> purposes and not for security etc.

Sure, but if this setting will be incorrect for 90-95% of the time,
then there won't be a lot people that are actually gonna use it,
because why do we want to know information that is probably wrong?

Tijnema

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