- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 20:22:01 -0400
- To: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: "Jeff Rafter" <jeffrafter@definedweb.com>, vdv@dyomedea.com, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Henry Thompson writes: >> This is just not true. 12:00:00 is not equal to >> 12:00:00Z. What _is_ true is that the various >> timezone-specific ways of specifying a time >> _are_ equal, e.g. 12:00:00Z is equal to 13:00:00Z+1. I had missed the former point, but it was the latter that was the subject of my note. I think many users find it counterintuitive that 12:00:00Z == 13:00:00Z+1, as many seem to think they are making a useful record of the timezone in which the time was noted. All my explanations and warnings were directed to this case, sorry for having missed the distinction between times with and without timezones. I still think the decision to allow timezones, but to make them insignificant in this case, is a questionable call. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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