- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:10:53 +1000
- To: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
- Cc: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>, Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
2009/8/21 Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>: > > On 21 aug 2009, at 00:13, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Thanks for the trust. :-) >> >> However, I think we should review the clock time specification, see >> >> http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/WD-media-fragments-spec/#clock-time >> >> At the moment it follows RTSP, e.g. >> t=clock:20090726T111901Z,20090726T112001Z >> >> This can be fairly unreadabe. >> >> I just checked HTML5 and they have done their own variant of the ISO >> 8601 format, see >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dates-and-times >> >> Examples are: >> "0037-12-13T00:00Z" => midnight 13th Dec 37, UTC timezone >> "1979-10-14T12:00:00.001-04:00" => 14th Oct 1979, midday plus 1 >> microsecond, UTC-4hrs >> >> The advantages are that we stay in sync with HTML, it's slightly more >> readable, and we provide the possibility of including timezones. >> >> What do others think about this? > > > Agreed. This also aligns with what SMIL uses, I think (checking... yes). Has SMIL got a good EBNF spec of this? If not, I can make it up. :-) Cheers, Silvia.
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