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by jxjsndbxbd 521 days ago
UTC would be marked as +Z

Without any marking, it could be anything
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loeg 521 days ago
The article explicitly mentions UTC all over the place. It's UTC.
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DamonHD 521 days ago
No '+'.

Noon UTC is "12:00Z".

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nophunphil 521 days ago
One factor complicates things a bit: this is one way to encode that the timezone is UTC, but +00:00 is also commonly used for example.

RFC 3339 is nice for this reason. Always UTC and terminated with a Z.

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GoblinSlayer 521 days ago
RFC 3339 isn't always UTC and doesn't mandate Z, in only removes some extra flexibility of ISO 8601, like comma separator or short syntax.
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