[tz] localized date without time

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Tim, Paul, Serge,

On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 09:24:51PM GMT, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 06:49:44PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 2024-07-30 23:04, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > 
> > > it might be better to show the timezone information together with
> > > the date, to be clear that what we're printing is local time.
> > 
> > That would make sense, given that this is a change to behavior and the time
> > zone info will let people know of the change.
> > 
> > 
> > > maybe it's understood that when printing a
> > > date some timezone information is implicitly local?
> > 
> > It's not obvious to everybody.
> > 
> > 
> > > I don't see any way to print something like 2023-09-21+02:00 in
> > > standardese.  Is this a defect in ISO 8691?
> > 
> > Sort of, yes. You can use a format like "2023-09-20T00:000-07:00" to follow
> > the letter of the standard. I would suggest, though, using the format
> > "2023-09-20 -0700"; this uses an RFC 3339 / ISO 8601 date, space, and
> 
> FWIW that is definitely my preference, by far - thanks for suggesting it :)

Agree.  Thank you all!  I'll have a look at adding this to shadow.git.

Have a lovely day!
Alex

> 
> > time-zone, and this notation would be more useful to human readers even if
> > it's not specifically called out in the standards.
> > 
> > If you wanted to get fancy you could append an RFC 9557 suffix but that's
> > surely overkill for this application.

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