Stream: implementers
Topic: Offsets from UTC
Brian Reinhold (May 11 2019 at 14:42):
In the Baltimore HL7 meeting it was my understanding that the -00:00 offset was to be interpreted as UTC time without knowledge of time zone whereas +00:00 was to be interpreted as an offset that happens to be in a GMT time zone. Has that been brought into FHIR yet and if so, where can I reference it?
Lloyd McKenzie (May 11 2019 at 19:24):
To my knowledge, that's never been agreed to. It was proposed, but it's not supported by most (any?) libraries and is therefore rather problematic.
Vassil Peytchev (May 12 2019 at 14:19):
Sounds like a distinction without a purpose... I am probably missing something...
Grahame Grieve (May 12 2019 at 14:48):
It’s an obscure hack to solve an obscure problem in an obtuse standard (v2). We won’t be adopting it in fhir under any circumstances
John Silva (May 12 2019 at 19:10):
Yes, it sounds pretty obtuse. (btw, then there's also the UTC with the TZ represented by "Z")
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