Re: MS-DM-LC2-041

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>We believe that preserving the timezone information is overkill and
>should not be mandated to be preserved. Preserving presence and absence
>is enough, the values with a timezone should be normalized to UTC+0 and
>timezone generation should be left to formatting functions.
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1) there is no date formatting function in XQuery

2) working only with UTC representations has unfortunate effects for users
  as explained in

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2003Sep/0124.html

  (see also replies from Michael Kay)