Subj : Re: Re TZUTC
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Wed Mar 13 2019 11:36:44

On 2019-03-13 01:44:42 +0000, Maurice Kinal -> Ozz Nixon said:

> comparing to the list in fts-4008.002.  The only reference to 2004 I
> see as far as ISO 8601 is concerned is as follows (and I quote);
>
>    The section dictating sign usage (section 3.4.2 in the 2004 edition
>    of the standard) states that a plus sign must be used for a

Well, in your quote - you point to the statement in general that 3.4.2 was 
revised in 2004 to state "must"... prior to the 2004 revision, the word "must" 
did not exist.

-- now, I am not fighting for or against, I am simply on Marks side 
about - it is not referencing the same material or format. Material in 
question, is FTSC not RFC, nor ISO, but F.T.S.C. *love evil grins, and applying 
one here* ... next. for the "Format". The requirement for the + denotion is 
when concatenating TZ to existing string, it needed something to denote it is 
not HH:MM, but ZH:ZM (Zone Hour, Zone Minutes - prefix +/- to help parsers and 
humans that would have had a heart attack to see 11:39:28 03:00, or worse 
03:00:00 03:00)... I can just hear the explosions in EEST right now ... of the 
heads parsing that sentence). ;-P'"'"'"'"'

Per F.T.S.C. we are denoting a Kludge line ... TZUTC, with the range of 
1400..-1100 (LINT to NUT)... yeah, I could not have came up with funnier 
timezone initials for this post if I tried (a US religious joke, during LINT 
you would not use the phrase NUT or anything to imply sexual or curse phrases).

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