2018-02-15|ISO 8601: Date and time format

To whom it may concern

I am very impressed, to say the least, that your communication with the constituents uses unambiguous ISO 8601: Date and time format! Bravo!!

Barbeque la fête du Canada - Canada Day BBQ
2017-07-01T12:00:00Z - 2017-07-01T13:30:00Z
Forum du Député Chalk River M.P. Townhall
2018-02-26T19:00:00Z - 2018-02-26T20:30:00Z

I would like to point out that the "Z" directly after the time without a space is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset. Since we are offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by 5 hours (EST) or 4 hours (EDT), correct expression should have been as follows.

Barbeque la fête du Canada - Canada Day BBQ
2017-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 - 2017-07-01T13:30:00-04:00
Forum du Député Chalk River M.P. Townhall
2018-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 - 2018-02-26T20:30:00-05:00

Thank you very much for your attention.

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