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URL supports offset time zones, e.g. . For backwards compatibility, this RFC should support them too. This PR also adds clarifying text to several time-zone-related definitions.
Makes sense. Should I start one? Yep, we added these in Temporal primarily for compatibility with prior art in URL URL In Java (and currently in Temporal) a time zone ID can either be an IANA name or an offset. The ID is an index into a set of rules ( in Java, in Temporal) for converting between exact time and local time. If the ID is an offset, there's only one trivial rule because the offset is always the same. I don't have a strong opinion about the name of offset time zones.
NAME - Let me know if you have responses to the questions in my comment above, or how you'd like me to change this PR. Thanks!
I think we still need the mailing list discussion first. If we get to a certain state of clarity by March 18, we might be able to post yet another update of the draft right before IETF week.
Sounds good. I sent mail to the mailing list. Waiting for responses.
I plan to merge this within a couple of hours, so we have a merged draft to look at in Monday's WG meeting. Since the discussion hasn't concluded yet, I'll edit the merge so it is useful for those discussions; we can edit some more after Monday's meeting.
Sounds good to me. Based on your comments here and on the mailing list, I think we're in agreement on the important points.
Hi NAME - is the merged draft available? If not, I'm happy to make the edits you and NAME suggested here in this PR, but didn't want to step on changes you're making in parallel. Let me know how I can help. Thanks!
I merged the PR and made some edits in main. I included you in the contributor list; please advise if that is OK, the information is right and whether you want to include any more contact/affiliation information.
Great! Your edits look good to me. I may follow up after the meeting with minor text clarification PRs but nothing important. Info looks right. I'm a volunteer not working on behalf of my employer so no need for additional affiliation. Thanks!
The current ABNF for the time zone extension does not support offset time zones, e.g. . These zones are supported in URL, which is the prior art driving the bracketed time zone extension format. Therefore, I'm assuming that it makes sense for the standard to also allow offsets in brackets too. Current ABNF: URL Suggested ABNF for, where is imported from RFC 3339: Example of Java usage:
Please excuse my ignorance: What is the meaning of ? We'd need some text explaining the semantics.
This format asserts that derived timestamps (e.g. add one day) should also use the offset. It's mostly for backwards compatibility with URL It's not recommended for normal use. Heres the explanatory text I added in : >
I assume that conflicts between the timestamp offset and a bracketed offset (e.g. ) should be handled the same as other conflicts, per discussion in URL

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text: order to allow the inclusion of an optional suffix. The extended date/time format is described by the rule "date-time- <del> ext".  "date-time" is imported from RFC3339, "ALPHA" and "DIGIT" from RFC5234. </del> <ins> ext".  "date-time" and "time-numoffset" are imported from RFC3339, "ALPHA" and "DIGIT" from RFC5234. </ins> Note that a "time-zone" is syntactically similar to a "suffix-tag", but does not include an equals sign.  This special case is only