Re: time zones in annotation dates

Marja-Riitta Koivunen wrote:
> We use UTC and the times should have a Z after the time but is was 
> dropped out by accident in our implementation. It was supposed to be 
> corrected but I'll check that it is on the todo list.
> 
> Here is an extract from the new protocol document 
> (http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/User/Protocol.html).
> 
> <a:created>1999-10-14T12:10Z</a:created>
> <d:date>1999-10-14T12:10Z</d:date>
> 
> Is there a reason why this is not enough? The times can be converted to 
> local time by the client if that is known.

Adding the 'Z' would be sufficient to specify the point in time (and be 
ISO8601 compliant).  But sending UTC will lose the information about 
which timezone the poster was in, which could be useful.  If you send 
local time + timezone, the server can retain that info.

--Brent