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Re: [Sedate] A syntax proposal: floating and future times

Neil Jenkins <neilj@fastmailteam.com> Mon, 08 November 2021 04:11 UTC

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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:11:34 +1100
From: Neil Jenkins <neilj@fastmailteam.com>
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Subject: Re: [Sedate] A syntax proposal: floating and future times
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2021, at 14:16, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> *Floating time*
> **
> Suppose I just wanted to know when 9am was on my birthday, wherever I am in the world.  I would use something like:
> 
> `2022-11-26T09:00:00+11:00[tz=floating]`

This is not floating time. You've given it an offset: +11h. I don't understand this proposal at all. We already have a perfectly good syntax for a floating (a.k.a. wall-clock) date-time, in fact you used it earlier:

`2022-11-26T09:00:00`

It's the one that everyone already intuitively uses for this. The only thing that's needed is to give it a name so it can be more easily referenced from other documents.

—Neil

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