[Bug 17854] i18n-ISSUE-85: Health warning about converting date to/from incremental time

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17854

Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com> ---
The problem is described in our document on working with timezones:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/timezone/#floatingevents

The warning could be something like:

NOTE: 'date' values do not include time zone information. Care is needed when
converting fields of this type to or from date data types in JavaScript and
other programming languages. In many cases, an implicit time-of-day and time
zone are used to create an "incremental time" (an integer value that represents
the offset from some arbitrary epoch time). Processing or conversion of these
values, particularly across time zones, can change the value of the date
itself. See: [http://www.w3.org/TR/timezone]

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