-------- In message <alpine.lsu.2.00.1408271650570.23...@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony F inch writes: >Brooks Harris <bro...@edlmax.com> wrote:
>> > > For example, a date and time in New York City might be represented >> > > as 2014-07-04T00:00:00-05:00 [...] >> > >> > The former is incorrect. >> >> Incorrect where? > >The UTC offset in New York at that time was not -05:00 so that cannot be a >time in New York. You're missing the quiet genius of 8601 here: Who said the date and time of the event which happened in New York were represented on local timescale there at the time ? It would have been if you had written some ...EST or ...DST, and that would take you into the murky swamp of the olsen timezone database. By explicitly stating the UTC offset numerically, 8601 decouples it from any cultural basis it might have had and becomes a standalone representation of a moment in time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
