Joe Abley wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:16:09PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
However, many events are actually specified relative to a particular
timezone, and timezone offsets occasionally change with little advance
warning. As such, this representation may not be sufficient for
specifying dates and times of some kinds of events, particularly
future events.
In such cases it is necessary to include a representation of the timezone
(not merely the GMT offset) along with the date of the event. This
specification does not provide such a facility, and is therefore
inappropriate for representation of (for example) events on a calendar.
Is this not covered in section 1?
o All times expressed have a stated relationship (offset) to
....
No - not at all.
This is a BIG issue - if you want to understand it, go
to the calsch archives. Or send email to the ietf-calendar(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
mailing list.
-Doug