Re: Diary icalendar tests still broken

Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:38:06 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> How then could the validation function (that's what you mean, right?)
> distinguish between the case where a UTC time (correctly) has no TZID,
> and the case where a Europe/London offset 0 time is missing a TZID?

You can't and you have to be permissive in your validation?
What's the expected harm if your validation accepts a case where a UTC
time has a TZID=3DUTC?
What should it do anyway with "almost UTC but not quite" like GMT?

> "TIME is a list (SECOND MINUTE HOUR DAY MONTH YEAR IGNORED DST ZONE)
> in the style of =E2=80=98decode-time=E2=80=99, so that (encode-time (deco=
de-time ...)) works.
> In this list, ZONE can be nil for Emacs local time, t for Universal
> Time, ..."

Ah, I missed that.  Then I guess it's OK.


=3D=3D=3D Stefan