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Re: [Sedate] Can offsets like [+02:00] be used instead of IANA names in brackets?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 08 March 2022 20:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Sedate] Can offsets like [+02:00] be used instead of IANA names in brackets?
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On 2022-03-08, at 21:19, Justin Grant <justingrant.ietf.public@gmail.com> wrote:
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> IMO, "second exception to the [foo=bar] syntax" sounds like [-08:00][America/Los_Angeles] could be allowed in a string, when in reality the time zone suffix should be mutually exclusive: either an IANA name or a numeric offset string.

Ah, that’s the part I missed.
So what is the reason these are mutually exclusive?

Grüße, Carsten

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