[whatwg] Forms-related feedback

Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 29 18:35:36 PDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>> I actually think we need to distinguish between local and floating time
>> zones.
>>
>> When using datetime-local, I would actually expect that the browser
>> picks the local timezone as the default time zone, so doesn't expose a
>> timezone entry in the UI. The value that is returned by the form,
>> however, actually has a timezone.
>
> That's type=datetime (the time zone is always UTC).


Hmm.. .what does a JS dev use, then, when they want to require a user
to have to pick a timezone other than UTC?

Silvia.



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