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My only grief with ISO8601 is that the way the timezones are denoted is somewhat unfortunate. Would have been nice if we could somehow have: 19:00+02:00 = 21:00
by contravariant 5y ago
My only grief with ISO8601 is that the way the timezones are denoted is somewhat unfortunate. Would have been nice if we could somehow have: 19:00+02:00 = 21:00+00:00 = 23:00-02:00, but alas.
I suppose I should also be annoyed that I somehow never manage to type dates in the correct format if I need to write them by hand, but I'm not sure if I can blame ISO for that.
- fanf2 5y agoThe timezone sign convention is the same as the longitude sign convention: east is positive. The lat/long conventions are documented in ISO 6709, but they predate that standard, though I have not found a good history of it. Note that these sign conventions are not universal: for example, POSIX has the reverse sign on timezone offsets because west positive was more convenient for american unix developers. There are similar oddities for longitude.
- contravariant 5y agoI can understand the reasoning behind it. But it's still unfortunate.