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Re: Timezones (was: limits of the generic)

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Timezones (was: limits of the generic)
• From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>
• Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:35:12 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200209291820.OAA12574@m...>
• Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
• References: <200209291820.OAA12574@m...>
• Reply-to: Jeni Tennison <jeni@j...>

John,

> Actually, you can't *know* it. Washington or Albany might decide to
> change the timezone rules between now and then, in which case the
> UTC time would change.

Freaky. So in fact an airline should really store a local time of
departure, plus a duration of the flight, and reserve judgement about
what the local time might be on arrival until... well... the plane
arrives. Now I understand why all the information Expedia's giving me
about my flight to Baltimore in December is labelled "provisional" :)

Cheers,

Jeni

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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/

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