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Re: Predictable Internet Time

2017-01-03 12:39:03
Hi Stewart,

--On January 3, 2017 at 6:30:19 PM +0000 Stewart Bryant <stewart(_dot_)bryant(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

Only the UI needs the TZ information, the machine can operate just fine
with any timescale. That is you present the time in local time, but
operate in global time, and this is definitely an application that will
not care about leap seconds.

No that simply does not work. Repeating events or alarms may not involve any UI at all, but the device may need to trigger those at a specific local time - that means time zone information has to be taken into account somewhere. This is a crucial fact of any calendaring and scheduling system that those of us who have been using iCalendar (RFC5545) fully appreciate.

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Cyrus Daboo

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