Legendary suggestion. As someone who works on a global webservice platform the timezone issue is something that's been messy since it was originally implented badly. It's taken a looong time to standardize across the board. +1 Jackflap <div>On 08/04/2008, Karl Chen <<a href="mailto:quarl@cs.berkeley.edu">quarl@cs.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, this is a comment about <a href="http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html">http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html</a>, <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec</a> . The current Trash spec (version 0.7) says: * The key "DeletionDate" contains the date and time when the   file/directory was trashed. The date and time are to be in the   YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss format (see RFC 3339). The time zone should   be the user's (or filesystem's) local time. I applaud the choice of YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss over the despicable ctime() format. One suggestion I have: use UTC and/or specify the timezone. Files may live in the trash can across daylight savings changes. A laptop or filesystem's local timezone can change as the user moves his laptop or removable media across timezone boundaries. Network file systems can be in different timezones from the client. I believe that using the local timezone without specifying the timezone may cause problems. In the language of RFC 3339, the current format of the DeletionDate field is "4.4. Unqualified Local Time".  I propose that the format of DeletionDate be changed to "4.2. Local Offsets" (e.g. 1996-12-19T16:39:57-08:00) or "4.1. Coordinated Universal Time" (e.g. 1996-12-20T00:39:57Z), i.e. standard RFC 3339. Regards, Karl _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> </blockquote></div>