Re: Is it legitimate to compare 2 dateTime without timezones? from Martin Duerst on 2001-10-30 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from October 2001)

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:05:40 +0900
To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20011030150351.03ddab10@localhost>

At 17:00 01/10/29 +0100, Eric van der Vlist wrote:

>The first two issues being this implicit timezone and the fact that 
>symbolic timezones (BST, EST, PST, ...) are not directly supported.

Yes, for obvious reasons:

- They are a moving target
- Many of them are ambiguous (two different zones have the same code)


Regards,   Martin.

Received on Tuesday, 30 October 2001 02:14:33 UTC