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Comment by kuon

8 months ago

RFC 3339 should be preferred to iso, but it does not solve the wall clock issue. In a calendar application I worked on, we use city name and lat/lng + "naive" timestamp (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm or moon based date or other specialties like Japanese year depending on the locale). And we "resolve" to UTC + offset when the date is close.

https://www.mooncratertycho.com/the-12-lunar-calendars-still...

Nice! https://i.imgur.com/vsC2Wyd.png

See even RFC 3339 seems unnecessarily lax. You can use _ or lowercase t or space as the date and time separator? Why? Just pick one instead of complicating all the parsers.

The intersection of the two specs seems pretty good though.