Re: [calsify] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-douglass-timezone-service-01

[Steve Allen <[e-mail]>]

On Thu 2011-03-03T15:26:33 -0500, Mike Douglass hath writ:
> A new version of I-D, draft-douglass-timezone-service-01.txt has been
> successfully submitted by Mike Douglass and posted to the IETF repository.
>
> Filename:      draft-douglass-timezone-service
> Revision:      01
> Title:                 Timezone Service Protocol
> Creation_date:         2011-03-03
> WG ID:                 Independent Submission
> Number_of_pages: 41

I see the XML elements "utc-offset-XXX" which specify hours and
minutes.  That does not cover existing entries in the tzdata files
which have offsets of HH:MM:SS.  Although the existing such entries
are mostly historic, the results of the ITU-R actions regarding the
fate of leap seconds could make them relevant for future dates.

I think the text should allow for offsets of HH:MM:SS in order to
handle both past and possible future cases.

I also do not see how this mechanism could be used to transport the
content of the "leapseconds" file in existing distributions of tzdata.

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