International Date and Time

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Provide instructions to help users understand the local time zone offset with UTC time. For instance, year, month, day entry for Alaska will result in a 08:00 time added to the date to resolve time to UTC, assuming a midnight local time (-08:00). This offset will not appear in mdEditor if the user is looking at the data in the same time zone it was entered. However, it is written with the time offset in mdJSON.

When a date time is viewed by a user in a different time zone than the data was set to, mdEditor will resolve the date time appearance to the local user's time, while mdJSON content will remain unchanged in the original time zone UTC offset. However, if that user edits the date time, it will be adjusted to that user's current UTC offset. Not sure how this can be mitigated, if undesirable. Some further investigation is needed, for instance if a time is provided, will this be the assumed UTC? If so, then it is incumbent on the user to adjust local time to UTC time.