RE: RFC 822

Saxon isn't currently handling the "Z" and "z" specifiers in
format-date/time correctly. Hopefully this will be fixed at the next release
- though whether the answer will actually be what RFC 822 expects is an open
question. I didn't realize RFC 822 had the US time zone names hard-coded
into it - talk about cultural bias! There's a bit of a problem with these as
there's no way of knowing whether a timezone of -05:00 means EST or CDT,
even if you know to use a US timezone (which one can get from the country
argument). 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Gutierrez [mailto:alan-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 23 September 2005 11:03
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  RFC 822
> 
> This is my RFC 822 format picture. 
> 
> <xsl:variable
>     name="gmt"
>     select="adjust-dateTime-to-timezone(
>         $dateTime, xdt:dayTimeDuration('PT0H'))"/>
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($gmt,
>     '[FNn,*-3], [D01] [MNn,*-3] [Y0001] [H01]:[m01]:[s01] GMT',
>     'en', (), 'US')"/>
> 
> For dateTime...
> 
> 2005-09-21T02:47:00Z
> 
> This emits...
> 
> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:47:00 GMT
> 
> I've tried a number of varitions on the time zone, [z] [Z] 
> and [ZN,*-3].
> 
> Those pictures translate to "Z" when I expect GMT or UTC.
> 
> I'm pretty sure I'm doing something terribly wrong and I don't want
> to lose my timestamps.
> 
> Where's my error?
> 
> (Sorry, for asking so many questions at once. I've kinda been
>     storing them up. I'm doing a clean up.)
> 
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