Re: [Cbor] draft-ietf-cbor-date-tag-02 - handling of time zone offsets

Henk Birkholz <henk.birkholz@sit.fraunhofer.de> Wed, 01 July 2020 10:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] draft-ietf-cbor-date-tag-02 - handling of time zone offsets
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I was referring to well-known epoch concepts only, such as the beginning 
of the common era, of course. Going into all the required details 
(reference timescales) without simplification is probably unnecessary 
complexity.

Viele Grüße,

Henk

On 01.07.20 11:06, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2020-07-01, at 10:44, Henk Birkholz <henk.birkholz@sit.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>>
>> Both calendars and timescales can share the same epoch, though.
> 
> Not sure that statement is pedantically correct, but yes.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
>