[Zope3-dev] Re: Formatting of Created/Modified times

[Shane Hathaway]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>- When I changed the code to display both date and time, it
>>>  appears to be displaying UTC!  That's no good.
>>
>>What should it display instead?
> 
> 
> That should be a site policy.
> 
> A reasonable default site policy would be to let a logged-in user set
> a preferred timezone, and otherwise use the timezone of the server.

FWIW: This is just the kind of thing that a "locale" service might be 
responsible for.  Site managers should be able to visit the locale 
service and choose whether to display times in local time or UTC, what 
date and time fomats to use, which day is the first day of the week, 
currency formats, etc.

Site managers should also be able to select default locale settings 
based on their geographical region.  The locale provider service should 
provide the list of defaults.  (It would be nice if the locale provider 
service pulled the defaults from a web site rather than installed files, 
but I digress...)

Shane