[tz] Irish Standard Time vs Irish Summer Time

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Fri Dec 8 21:05:40 UTC 2017


On 8 December 2017 at 16:01, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

>   Yes, and it may also be necessary to state the meaning
>>   of such extensions; for instance, the suffixes u, g, z
>>   currently are allowed for SAVE values but they
>>   cannot really be used because it is not clear what
>>   they are supposed to mean in this context.
>>
>
> Sorry, I don't see a problem here. The u suffix means "treat the date and
> time as UTC". If the time is -02:00, that means 22:00 the previous day UTC.


If I'm reading correctly, I think the point is that these suffixes, while
meaningful in the AT field, are currently meaningless in the SAVE field
even though they're technically permitted there?

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Tim Parenti
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