RE: MS-DM-LC2-041

Re 1): If we cut the preservation, we can obviously add such a
formatting function. Which I think is more useful anyway.

 

Re 2): Your mail below seems to be mainly concerned about issues with
non-timezone values that have implied timezones added for several
functions. Our request below would 

a)       preserve the absence of the timezone

b)       does not take any stance on the treatment of some of the
functions that you complain about (we felt that since you already have
submitted that comment, we did not need to in the context of the Data
Model review).

 

Best regards

Michael

 

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From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-qt-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Xavier Franc
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:21 PM
To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Subject: Re: MS-DM-LC2-041

 

	We believe that preserving the timezone information is overkill
and
	should not be mandated to be preserved. Preserving presence and
absence
	is enough, the values with a timezone should be normalized to
UTC+0 and
	timezone generation should be left to formatting functions.
	  

 

1) there is no date formatting function in XQuery

2) working only with UTC representations has unfortunate effects for
users
  as explained in

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2003Sep/0124.html

  (see also replies from Michael Kay)