"internal-style signedness" and "zic style"?? Reading the below utterings just makes me bounce of the wall and scratch my head (but not at the same time :-). Even though I have been on this mailing list for some time, I still have no idea what you are talking about. Wouldn't some plain english be in place here? Sorry for the grouch. It was actually meant to be constructive criticism. If you can't describe this without using a lot of words, insert examples in the sentences right after the keywords. Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard@Prodigy.Net.mx Programador/Analista CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (5) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (5) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 CIMMYT home page: http://cimmyt.cgiar.org Check out my free program World Time Explorer: http://timezone50.homepage.com ---------- From: Paul Eggert[SMTP:eggert@twinsun.com] Sent: Miércoles 14 de Febrero de 2001 3:17 To: alex@agsm.edu.au Cc: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: etcetera patch
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:03:54 +1100 From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au>
# We use POSIX-style signedness in the names and output, # internal-style signedness in the specifications.
What is "internal-style signedness"? Would your "average" tz user know? How?
It's zic style. I'll change "internal" to "zic-input".
# ... With the Draft 5 notation, people who # prefer the traditional time zone sign can use TZ='<GMT-4>+4'.
What is "the traditional time zone sign"?
The sign where positive numbers are east of Greenwich. I'll change the wording here too.
What about UTC as opposed to GMT?
The existing zone names all use "GMT" so I think it's better to use GMT in the examples.
Might you also say "people who prefer ISO-8601 compliant time-zone signs can use TZ='<UTC-04:00>+4' instead"?
That doesn't conform to either ISO 8601 or to d5. ISO 8601 does not allow the 'UTC'; d5 does not allow the ':'. However, TZ='<-0400>+4' would conform to both, I think; I'll add that example too. Thanks for your comments.