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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 16:08 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 17:02, Ujjwal Sharma <ryzokuken@igalia.com> wrote:
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> While this format certainly looks weird, I believe we should include it for backwards compatibility with the de-facto standard. Any compelling arguments to avoid this at all costs?

Does this need to be compatible to the Java API or to some one-the-wire format?

For the latter, I’d like to focus on the [foo=bar] format as far as that is possible.

Grüße, Carsten

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