Re: POSIX TS spec reverses the meaning of TZ offset compared to ISO (was: [FEATURE REQUEST] Timezone support in org-mode datestamps and org-agenda)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 01/02/2023 20:26, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> 
>> There is potential confusion coming from the different interpretations
>> of the time zone offsets used in ISO8601 and POSIX TZ specs:
>
> Ihor, I am sorry that I did not reply to your early question.
>
> Is there a strong reason to support POSIX TZ? Time zones with fixed 
> offsets are available as e.g. Etc/GMT-8 (unfortunately inverted sign as 
> well).

Because `encode-time' accepts POSIX TZ as argument. So, may as well.
Note that Etc/GMT-8 is also accepted as POSIX TZ.

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