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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Eduardo Pérez Ureta wrote:
>OK, You are using ISO 8601 but there is a minor problem in the
>timezone specification.
>There exists no international standard that specifies abbreviations for
>civil time zones like CET, EST, etc.
Fair point. The current programs all accept +0100 and similar timezone
specifications without any complaint (they use Perl's Date::Manip
module). The listings grabbers may use 'GMT' or 'PST' instead of
numeric timezones, I think that is probably okay for the time being,
especially if those names are used in the data source itself. Sometimes
the timezone is included in printed output and the like, and for that
'BST' is preferable to '+0100'. (Or is it -0100?)
There used to be some cases of hardcoded timezone names, but I think
I've purged that. Should check again. Making the grabbers themselves
avoid named timezones is something I'll come back to. Certainly if a
timezone names like 'CET' is included in the input to a filter then it
should be used in the output.
Thanks for pointing this out, it will be added to the (long) todo list.
I think it is quite a minor issue though.
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Ed Avis <epa98@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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