Brooks Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Its important to note 8601 is silent on how "Daylight Savings Time" is handled > and provides no recommendation of how it might be indicated or represented.
ISO 8601 does not represent daylight saving nor time zones. > Looking closely you'll find there is no universal definition of "local time". > In particular, 8601 implies use of "offset from UTC", as indication of "local > time", but conflates this with Daylight Savings. For example, a date and time > in New York City might be represented as 2014-07-04T00:00:00-05:00 which > misses the fact that Daylight was in effect, or 2014-07-04T00:00:00-04:00 > which misses the fact the the fixed timezone offset is -05:00. The former is incorrect. > The definition of "proleptic UTC" is controvesial. NTP does the best job of > it. in my opinion, but watch out; its subtle. I did not think NTP had anything to say about proleptic UTC at all. Do you have a specific reference? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Trafalgar: Cyclonic in northwest, otherwise mainly northerly or northwesterly 5 or 6. Slight or moderate. Showers in northwest. Good. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
