Grouper Developers Forum

[Scott Koranda <>]

Hi,

> > How difficult would it be to add a specific timezone on the permission 
> > limit syntax
> 
> Are you saying that the limit on a permission is from 9-5
> for a specific timezone no matter where the caller is?  Or
> are you saying the env variable that the caller passes to
> the server when determining if someone has a permission or
> not would be the label of the timezone?
> 
> Either would be easy.  I think the first one might be
> difficult for people on a UI to configure.  For the latter,
> either way the caller would need to pass in the timezone
> where the transaction is taking place, so it is similar of
> just passing in the hour of day, right?  :)  Maybe it is
> easier to pass in the timezone.
> 
> To do this, I would just have the caller pass either the
> hour of day or the timezone which is the Java timezone ID.
> I have the list of possible ones below for my version of the
> JRE.  

Would it be better to support a well known RFC such as 2822 or
3339 instead?

(Or is the Java timezone ID already RFC compliant?)

Scott