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Re: Predictable Internet Time

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Tue, 03 January 2017 18:38 UTC

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Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:38:45 -0500
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Subject: Re: Predictable Internet Time
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Hi Stewart,

--On January 3, 2017 at 6:30:19 PM +0000 Stewart Bryant 
<stewart.bryant@gmail.com> wrote:

> Only the UI needs the TZ information, the machine can operate just fine
> with any timescale. That is you present the time in local time, but
> operate in global time, and this is definitely an application that will
> not care about leap seconds.

No that simply does not work. Repeating events or alarms may not involve 
any UI at all, but the device may need to trigger those at a specific local 
time - that means time zone information has to be taken into account 
somewhere. This is a crucial fact of any calendaring and scheduling system 
that those of us who have been using iCalendar (RFC5545) fully appreciate.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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