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

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Mon, 21 March 2022 18:15 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 3/21/22 11:00, Pete Resnick wrote:
> Is this something that has been communicated to the IAB? Seems like some 
> "liaising" might be in order. Having conflicting forks seems less than 
> ideal.

I haven't communicated it, no. Feel free to pass it along.

You're right it's less than ideal. Luckily the forks are more 
philosophical than practical, as the differences are minor and affect 
only pre-1970 timestamps. 1970 has long been the TZDB cutoff anyway, as 
it would not be practical to cover the world before 1970 in a reliable way.

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