Re: [Tzdist] How should tzdist support rscale?

Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> Wed, 07 January 2015 19:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tzdist] How should tzdist support rscale?
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On Wednesday, January 7 2015, "Jonathan Lennox" wrote to "Cyrus Daboo, tzdist@ietf.org, calsify@ietf.org" saying:

> > Actually the rscale document only mentions time zones once in Section 1 - 
> > and there it states that time zone rules (i.e., what comes from a 
> > publisher) is specified in terms of the Gregorian calendar - that does not 
> > imply VTIMEZONE itself is limited to Gregorian rules - just that no time 
> > zone data uses non-Gregorian. If you think that text needs re-wording to 
> > clarify that, I can certainly change it.
> 
> Yes, I think that the rscale draft should be clarified to note that RSCALE
> can appear in an RRULE in any iCalendar context where RRULE is allowed, not
> just VEVENT, and in particular it can appear in VTIMEZONE.

The new text in version -03 of rscale satisfies this nicely. Thank you!
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Jonathan Lennox
lennox@cs.columbia.edu