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Re: [grouper-dev] Re: [paccman] built-in permissions limits... do we need any more?


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  • From: Scott Koranda <>
  • To: Chris Hyzer <>, '@gravity.phys.uwm.edu
  • Cc: Tom Dopirak <>, Keith Hazelton <>, paccman <>, "" <>
  • Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] Re: [paccman] built-in permissions limits... do we need any more?
  • Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:25:31 -0500

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



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