I understand that virtually nothing in the IETF outside of time
synchronization protocols refers to non-UTC or non-civil time scales. I
also understand it's too late at this juncture to contemplate adding a
non-leap time scale to this document.
I do however think it's worth a few words about the
Hi Erik,
Thanks for the comment.
The restriction you quoted was actually imported from rfc3339#section-5.7.
Also, we leverage base type (date-and-time) defined in 6991/6991bis:
The date-and-time type is a profile of the ISO 8601
standard for representation of dates and times using t