[tz] Introduce Etc/UTC+x timezones?
Michael H Deckers
michael.h.deckers at googlemail.com
Thu May 4 10:11:40 UTC 2023
On 2023-04-21 18:10, Brian Inglis via tz wrote:
> ISO 4031:1978 first defined the representation of local time
> differentials, commonly referred to as time zones, with -W/+E.
The choice of the term "local time differential" was unfortunate because
commonly, a differential is not a difference. The terminology was
changed
• in [ISO 8601:1988] to "time difference"
• in [ISO 8601-1:2019] to "time shift"
but the definition as time shift = local time - UTC remained the same.
Michael Deckers.
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