[LEAPSECS] Leap second relationship to ISO 8601

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Brooks Harris said:
> An organization I work with has been using a web-based meeting 
> scheduling calendar that gives meeting date-time notifications.
> 
> Recently it has been announcing meetings as, for example -
> 
> "When: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:00 AM-12:30 PM. (UTC-05:00) 
> Eastern Time (US & Canada)"
> 
> Of course Daylight is in effect on the east coast, so its completely 
> wrong. What is intended is 2014-09-24T12:00-04:00 (noon, "Eastern 
> Daylight Time").

Microsoft's calendaring stuff does that. I keep getting stuff that says
it's at (say) 10:00 UTC, plus "the UTC offset doesn't take account of
daylight savings time", when what it means is 10:00 BST.

Even worse is the ones that say 10:00 UTC+01:00, which actually mean 09:00
BST.

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