{"id":302,"date":"2009-09-25T19:10:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-09-25T19:10:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T23:10:02","slug":"about-time-zones-and-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"About Time Zones and Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am discovering for myself the world of RSS, ATOM, and blog feed aggregators. I tried to find out what&#8217;s the difference between RSS and ATOM (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_Compared_to_RSS_2.0\">here is a good starting point<\/a>), and it looks like one of the differences is in the date format.<\/p>\n<p>The older date format is <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc822\">RFC-822<\/a>. It was adopted in 1982 and it has only two digits for the year part. Indeed, in 1982 the 21st century seemed like a very distant future. I do remember that feeling \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The newer date format is <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc3339#page-4\">RFC-3399<\/a>, that was adopted as late as 2002. It specifies for digits for the year and reinforces the mandatory specification of the time zone, although many existing applications don&#8217;t do it. This is how the RFC authors justify their decision:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"blue\">Since interpretation of an unqualified local time zone will fail in approximately 23\/24 of the globe, the interoperability problems of unqualified local time are deemed unacceptable for the Internet.<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In other words, gentlemen, wherever you live, keep in mind that you are <u>not<\/u> the center of the Universe. Approximately 23\/24 of the globe has different local time! If you forget this, your interoperability will suffer. Be humble and specify your time zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am discovering for myself the world of RSS, ATOM, and blog feed aggregators. I tried to find out what&#8217;s the difference between RSS and ATOM (here is a good <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=302\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-misc","category-dev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}