Tony Finch wrote > Right, and this is good for many purposes, e.g. recording times of events now or in the past. However for events in the future (meetings etc.) you need to record a time and a place, because the UTC offset and time zone rules are not predictable.
Even better, local time can be used to specify recurring meetings which begin at the same local time, but different UTC times, because of daylight saving time. ISO 8601 has a notation for recurring events, although I have not mastered it. Gerry Ashton _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs