Timezone needed?

[Bo Thorsen]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 08:38, Martin Konold wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 08:12 schrieb Stephan Buys:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Agreed. UTC is the one safe bet that we have. And with the least
> > amount of "what-ifs". Daylight-saving, etc, etc is controlled through
> > the timezones which are client-driven.
>
> Sorry, but this will simply not work. There is a fundamental semantic
> difference between time with explicit timezone and local times without
> timezones.
>
> The only thing I am asking for (last mail from me towards the timezone
> topic) is make the timezone (UTC) _explicit_ (using a Z) not implizit.

This makes sense to me. I don't see any reason not to do this now, since 
it allows for future revisions of the format.

Let's just tag a Z at the end of datetime and move on. No change in 
functionality is required for now.

Bo.

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     Bo Thorsen                 |   Praestevejen 4
     Senior Software Engineer   |   5290 Marslev
     Klarälvdalens Datakonsult  |   Denmark
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