- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:37:18 -0400
- To: Arle Lommel <arle.lommel@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>, Leandro Reis <lreis@adobe.com>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
Arle Lommel scripsit:
> I agree with your statement. As noted in my earlier comment, I think
> the alternative (throw out the offsets if tz is present) would have
> too much potential to break things and lead to unanticipated results.
This seems to me to undermine the original use case. The whole point of
specifying "5:00 PM on 2020-04-01, New York time" is that we do not
know what UTC instant corresponds to that time, but we may be required
for legal or customary reasons (consider appointments in the future)
to specify just that. If the tz attribute cannot be used to specify
the meaning of a timestamp, it is useless for that purpose.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
Pour moi, les villes du Silmarillion ont plus de realite que Babylone.
--Christopher Tolkien, as interviewed by Le Monde
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