Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> writes:

>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Sep 2023, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>
>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Sep 2023, Florian Schmaus wrote:
>>> Some, including me, consider timestamps without timezone specifiers to
>>> be in local time (either of the consumer or producer of the
>>> timestamp). Hence, if you really must have UTC here, then at least
>>> consider making it explicit my requiring the 'Z' timezone specifier
>>> (which, if you want to be ISO compatible, probably means that the
>>> timestamp must include HH:MM too).
>
>> How about converting package.mask to XML? The xs:date type would allow
>> a date followed by a time zone [1].
>
>> /me hides
>
> Seriously, this isn't a hill I am willing to die on. I still prefer UTC
> there, but I'd be fine if the wording said "should" instead of "must".

Yes, I want the UTC bit in there, but it's fine if it's "should" and not
"must". I was trying to articulate that before but I didn't do so very
clearly.

>
> Ulrich


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