[Spaceapi-devel] Specify a time zone for state.lastchange

[Roland Hieber]

Regarding the forwarded mail, attached below:

1)
Very nice application of the SpaceAPI!

2)
I noticed that the last change time is given on this site with a time
zone. However, the SpaceAPI specs don't mention any time zone for the
state.lastchange field. The site seems to interpret this value as UTC,
which makes most sense to me; so we should probably also specify this
field to be UTC.

One could argue that the endpoint's local time is a also valid time zone
for this field, but for global evaluation there would be the additional
need to know the local time zone as well, which probably changes more
often than one might think. Also the local communities probably know
best about their current time zone in relation to UTC. So in my opinion,
it is most reasonable to specify the state.lastchange field to be UTC.

Any opinions?

 - Roland


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [hackerspaces] Hackerspaces Microwiki
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 17:05:14 +0100
From: Iain R. Learmonth <irl at fsfe.org>
To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List
  <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>

Hi,

I made a thing[1]. It pulls information from SpaceAPI endpoints published by
individual hackerspaces listed in the SpaceAPI directory[2].

[1]: http://hackerspaces.shiftout.com/
[2]: http://spaceapi.net/directory

I do plan to add some RDF/XML and other machine readable bits and a table of
sensors is on the list of tasks. I also plan at some point to manually link
the SpaceAPI endpoints to spaces on the hackerspaces.org wiki to pull more
information (from the infobox mainly).

Iain.

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