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

Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by 1718627440 on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:59PM (#45162087)
> Local date and time is always bound to a local timezone, it‘s just implicit.

It does not that's the key of this argument. Here local means "on this device", whatever dumb time this has.

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Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by ivan_gammel on Sunday September 07, 2025 @05:37PM (#45162413)
Do you understand what „implicit“ means?
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Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 by 1718627440 on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:26AM (#45165881)
Yes, but it's still not bound to a timezone, unless you define "all the timezones this device goes through" as a timezone.
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