At 19:59 14/02/05 -0800, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
(2) a CalendarTime sans timezone is equivalent to UTC,
No, a CalendarTime without a time zone would simply be a local time. It would not correspond to any particular absolute time.
Yes, something like that... RFC3339 has a trick of using -00:00 offset for this: [[ 4.3. Unknown Local Offset Convention If the time in UTC is known, but the offset to local time is unknown, this can be represented with an offset of "-00:00". This differs semantically from an offset of "Z" or "+00:00", which imply that UTC is the preferred reference point for the specified time. RFC2822 [IMAIL-UPDATE] describes a similar convention for email. ]] -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt I don't recall if this is true in ISO 8601 - maybe not. (I'm not promoting the syntax here, just supporting the general concept.) #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact