[whatwg] Forms-related feedback

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> 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?

There's no control in HTML today that exposes a time zone interface, 
whether it's UTC or anything else.

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