Subj : Re: Re TZUTC
To   : Eric Pareja
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Sat Mar 09 2019 03:09:29

On 2019-03-04 15:55:17 +0000, Eric Pareja -> Maurice Kinal said:
>
> I just looked up FTS-4008.002 and it appears that the + shouldn't be there.
>
> I'll file an issue on the WWIV tracker.

Sorry for a late response, been on the road all week...

Actually that would be incorrect. For ISO standards on UTC, the use of + is 
only required due to the fact it is appended directly to the end of the 
seconds. Otherwise a 0500 appended to 11:30:22 would make a mess of parsers 
"guessing"... for example 11:30:22500 and 11:30:220500 are invalid. 
11:30:22+0500 is correct.

However, you also cannot use "+" should be there because another platform uses 
it. I spent 20+ years making a living developing to RFC standards, and thus my 
interest in FTSC... to try and help. FTSC is much easier to read, the challenge 
is conflicting specifications... even in the current documents.

FYI: ISO 8601 did not state the "+" as required in section 3.4.2 prior to the 
2004 edition of the standard. And FTSC-4008 was written prior to 2004 also, and 
for our platform (FTSC) it's rules govern our platform not vise versa.

Ozz

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