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Steve Lawrence resolved DAFFODIL-2823.
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Resolution: Not A Problem
> time zone "z" specifier does not work properly
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> Key: DAFFODIL-2823
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-2823
> Project: Daffodil
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Back End
> Affects Versions: 3.4.0
> Reporter: Mike Beckerle
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.5.0
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> The time zone string "EST" is parsed by calendarPattern charater "z", and
> becomes ISO standard "-05:00" on parse, but "GMT-5" on unparse.
> This happens despite dfdl:calendarLanguge="en_US". That is, the problem is
> that the unparse should produce "EST", but does not.
> The locale is needed to implement "z" time zone format because some of these
> 3-letter timezone specifiers are ambiguous, so the locale must be known to
> disambiguate them when parsing.
> For example CST can be "Central Standard Time" (North America), "Cuba
> Standard Time" or "China Standard Time", and is widely used for "Central
> Standard Time" (Australia) according to
> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations]
> So when parsing "z" one must use the locale. When unparsing it's not so
> ambiguous, but Daffodil doesn't appear to use the locale information.
> Per the ICU documentation here:
> [https://icu.unicode.org/design/formatting/timezone/icu-4-8-time-zone-names]
> The "z" needs locale information, and several of the other specifiers also
> need it.
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