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

[Ujjwal Sharma <[e-mail]>]

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?

Ujjwal

On 08/03/2022 04.52, Justin Grant wrote:
> The current ABNF for the time zone extension does not support offset 
> time zones, e.g. [+08:45]. Offset zones are supported in java.time, 
> which is the prior art driving the bracketed time zone extension format. 
> Should the standard also allow offsets in brackets too?
> 
> https://github.com/ietf-wg-sedate/draft-ietf-sedate-datetime-extended/issues/12 
> <https://github.com/ietf-wg-sedate/draft-ietf-sedate-datetime-extended/issues/12> 
> has discussion relevant to this question.
> 
> FWIW, in the design of Temporal we've assumed that we should support 
> offsets in brackets for compatibility with Java. Here's a Java example:
> 
> public  class  MyClass  {
>      public  static  void  main(String  args[]) {
>        java.time.ZonedDateTime  zdt=  java.time.ZonedDateTime.parse("2021-12-09T00:00-08:00[-08:00]");
>        System.out.println(zdt.toString());
>      }
> }
> 
> Cheers,
> Justin Grant
> 

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