Following is a reply I am posting to a list regarding satellite observation which might be of interest to ISO 8601ers. I'm a bit surprised the subject hasn't...
The problem for software is the unpredictability of when leap seconds will be added. If they were added at predictable times, then software could easily ...
... If it were possible to schedule them that far in advance, doubtless either it would have been done or the definition of the second would have been adjusted...
Fred, Possibly. Sometimes the solutions you get are a function of the requirements you choose to satisfy. So Perhaps. Or perhaps the designers of the system...
... I agree - my comments below are an expansion of this point. ... That's the spirit... :-) ... This averaging out is a key point. As I understand it - the ...
... Adjusting the definition of the second would: a) be a really big deal because of the knock-on effect on all the other SI units and derived standards and b)...
[2002-Jul-03] I have recently started a discussion in the HTML forum located at: <http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/2692.htm#msg1>. One or two people in...
Hello everybody! I have done a Flash ISO8601 date/time format (.fla file) available at: http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Utilities/Time/ISO8601D-John_Wal- ...
John Walker
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Jul 3, 2002 8:17 pm
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U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department What is Universal Time? The times of various events, particularly astronomical and weather...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 4, 2002 1:31 pm
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Instead of having lots of people thinking of time (in particular seconds) in different ways would it not be easier to define different meanings for the word...
... An excellent idea Joe. I've been using one of my own for years. It's called 'Justa second' Very handy! Arthur A. Lawrance. -- In a networked world without...
Hi, As part of the www.joda.org implementation of ISO dates, I have been looking at how to add support for TimeZones to the ISO standard. The standard only ...
On 2002-Jul-09 Stephen Colebourne wrote(>): [2002-Jul-10] ... That is correct. ISO 8601 is for Numeric formats, which is why it also does not support the month...
[2002-Jul-10] I have recently started a discussion in the HTML forum located at: <http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/2692.htm#msg1>. I am still waiting for...
... The timezone name has a different purpose. It serves as an input to a date generator, typically via an environment variable. The output should still...
... 2002-07-10T02:24 g1smd@... replied (#): # These names come from ISO 9945, and are for an entirely different # application altogether. These names...
Following on from the comments on local timezones and the recent thread about leap seconds I've been thinking about how a "central" source of information about...
It would be big help for my application, if ISO would standardize the time zone codes in the half dozen countries that have multiple time zones, considering...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 10, 2002 3:04 pm
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The standard for timezone should be the +/-HHMM that is in the standard. If you want to use names for your personal use go ahead, you can use your own names. ...
Thanks for the interesting answers so far. Let me explain a little further. What I am struggling with most is that the ISO standard includes an optional time...
On 2002-Jul-10 Ed Davies wrote(>): [2002-Jul-12] ... This is referred to in those Chris Newman documents that I mentioned earlier. I also gave the URLs for...
On 2002-Jul-10 hjwoudenberg wrote(>): [2002-Jul-12] ... This won't be true when the Eastern European states, or Finland, or Turkey join the EC. What then? You...
I have a Internet application? Would like to know the UTC offset. Usually have the server domain. The domain code is the ISO 2 character country code. (xx) ...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 12, 2002 6:43 am
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What's your point? I don't see that you've actually stated a solution, just restated the problem. 8601's +/-HHMM meets all the requirements of the problem... ...
In a message dated 7/12/2002 1:16:22 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Tell me how you find this +/-hh:mm to use it? If you want the time in Zone-1 Russian how do...
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Jul 12, 2002 8:31 pm
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From: <g1smd@...> ... OK, so this is partly terminology. Z/HHMM is specifying a time zone OFFSET, not a time zone. For a pure computational system that...
... If you want the time in Zone-1 Russian how do you find the UTC offset? I find it using the code ".ru;z1t" ... You don't "find" anything. "Finding" implies...
[2002-Jul-14] There is some useful stuff emerging in the discussion at: <http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/2692.htm>. In particular, one person has written...
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