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Wordsmith new section 4/3 #53

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Draft for wordsmithing a new Section 4.3 for RFC 3339.
cabo Jun 19, 2023
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Merge branch 'main' into wordsmith-new-section-4-3
cabo Jun 22, 2023
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Use 5322 instead of 2822, identify section
cabo Jul 12, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -367,6 +367,19 @@ practice of interpreting the local offset `Z`: this is no longer
understood to "imply that UTC is the preferred reference point for the
specified time".

A revised {{Section 4.3 of RFC3339}} with the update could read as follows:

{:quote}
>
If the time in UTC is known, but the offset to local time is unknown,
this can be represented with an offset of "Z".
(The original version of this specification provided "-00:00" for
this purpose, which is not allowed by {{ISO8601-2000}} and therefore
is less interoperable; {{Section 3.3 of RFC5322}} describes a related
convention for email which does not have this problem).
This differs semantically from an offset of "+00:00", which implies
that UTC is the preferred reference point for the specified time.

## Notes

Note that the semantics of the local offset `+00:00` is not updated;
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