<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Joe Cheng wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">If the time is in UTC, then the dateCreatedTimeZone is Z,<br>meaning no further offset is required. The rule would be,<br>dateCreated with dateCreatedTimeZone applied = UTC. Period.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Yeah - OK. If the contract is that you can always append the time zone value to the dateCreated value then I'm good with it.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>So specifying a time zone in the dateCreated field (e.g. as Windows Live Spaces does and WordPress does in 2.2.1) would oblige the server to leave dateCreatedTimeZone *empty* so that appending would cause no change to the fully-qualified time.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Daniel</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>