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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by tzahola on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:00AM (#16332991)
There is an unambiguous way to represent time zones:

UTC±hh:mm

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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by BerislavLopac on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:13AM (#16333116)
To be pedantic, that's the unambiguous way to represent the UTC offset, not timezones. Different timezones can have the same offset at some moments, but not at others.
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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by tzahola on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:49AM (#16333463)
GGP probably meant including the UTC offsets in the timestamps, not timezone names like "Europe/Berlin" or whatever.
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Re:European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannu... by icebraining on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:06PM (#16334636)
Right, but the time zone might not have the same offset in the future, they're not interchangeable.
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