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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 03 July 2020 06:47 UTC

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On 2020-07-03, at 08:29, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> Charlemagne was crowned Roman Emperor on 100(-427334).

Well, maybe, 100(-426971) (tried a different date/time library; that is an amazing amount of brokenness — a year and three days off).  Maybe don’t recommend numeric day counts to historians...

Grüße, Carsten