Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote:
2. However the IETF explicitely forbid it when defining the ISO 8501
subset allowed on the Internet
RFC 3339> Although ISO 8601 permits the hour to be "24", this profile of
ISO
RFC 3339> 8601 only allows values between "00" and "23" for the
hour in
order
RFC 3339> to reduce confusion.
Therefore, banning the 24:00 notation is necessary for interoperability,
even if one does not agree with the IETF decision. (00:00 however is
well-defined and not ambiguous)
IETF RFCs are only relevant for software. Humans need to comply only with
ISO standards.
RFC 3339 specifically only claims to be about "representing and using date
and time in Internet protocols", not on websites (which are just an
arbitrary unformatted payload as far as the HTTPS protocol is concerned).
Kevin Kofler