fd.o trash specification - DeletionDate timezone

[Alexander H Deriziotis]

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

On 08/04/2008, Karl Chen <quarl at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, this is a comment about
> http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html,
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec .
>
> 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
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