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   On 2019-03-13 01:44:42 +0000, Maurice Kinal -> Ozz Nixon said:   
      
   > comparing to the list in fts-4008.002.  The only reference to 2004 I   
   > see as far as ISO 8601 is concerned is as follows (and I quote);   
   >   
   >    The section dictating sign usage (section 3.4.2 in the 2004 edition   
   >    of the standard) states that a plus sign must be used for a   
      
   Well, in your quote - you point to the statement in general that 3.4.2 was   
   revised in 2004 to state "must"... prior to the 2004 revision, the word "must"   
   did not exist.   
      
   -- now, I am not fighting for or against, I am simply on Marks side    
   about - it is not referencing the same material or format. Material in   
   question, is FTSC not RFC, nor ISO, but F.T.S.C. *love evil grins, and   
   applying one here* ... next. for the "Format". The requirement for the +   
   denotion is when concatenating TZ to existing string, it needed something to   
   denote it is not HH:MM, but ZH:ZM (Zone Hour, Zone Minutes - prefix +/- to   
   help parsers and humans that would have had a heart attack to see 11:39:28   
   03:00, or worse 03:00:00 03:00)... I can just hear the explosions in EEST   
   right now ... of the heads parsing that sentence). ;-P'"'"'"'"'   
      
   Per F.T.S.C. we are denoting a Kludge line ... TZUTC, with the range of   
   1400..-1100 (LINT to NUT)... yeah, I could not have came up with funnier   
   timezone initials for this post if I tried (a US religious joke, during LINT   
   you would not use the phrase NUT or anything to imply sexual or curse phrases).   
      
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