Re: More Work on iCalendar RDF Schema

On Friday, June 22, 2001, at 05:38  AM, Libby Miller wrote:

> ah, re times, I get you, the W3C DTF has timezones tacked on as part of
> the string. I guess we could go this way. The icalendar people were
> concerned with the accuracy of the timezone information I think,
> particularlly for cases where there was no standard name for the
> timezone. But you may be right that we don't need this degree of
> accuracy, in which case the W3C format would probably do. This would
> simplify things.

W3CDTF doesn't use standard time zones -- it uses +/-hh:mm to 
designate the time zone. I'm not sure what would be more 
accurate, except for adding seconds (which I don't think there 
are any time zones that do...). So I don't think there's any 
accuracy lost.

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