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A comment on RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601. Parent comment

Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by umanwizard on Sunday September 07, 2025 @07:04AM (#45157136)
That’s wrong or at least not normally how the term “time zone” is used. We would typically say that Sweden is in one time zone whose offset changes twice a year.
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Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by dijit on Sunday September 07, 2025 @08:14AM (#45157502)
so CEST is what?
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Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by umanwizard on Sunday September 07, 2025 @01:52PM (#45160524)
An offset from UTC.

Wikipedia calls it "the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year."

Note the word "zone" does not appear in the above.

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Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by yencabulator on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:30PM (#45173551)
Based on a quick skim, CEST is a "time" not a "time zone".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time

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