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Bug 8921 - Is there a way to get the time zone of the server?
Summary: Is there a way to get the time zone of the server?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-02-10 09:15 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:56 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-02-10 09:15:07 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#resource-metadata-management

Comment:
Is there a way to get the time zone of the server?

Posted from: 64.134.222.102
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-02-16 08:16:22 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: No, but it turns out it's not supposed to be the server's time zone, but the user's (which you can get using new Date()), so hopefully that's not a problem! I've updated the text accordingly.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-02-16 08:17:33 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4746.
Check-in comment: Mention the timezone of lastModified.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4745&to=4746