- From: <Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:35:48 -0500
- To: "Ashok Malhotra" <ashokma@microsoft.com>
- Cc: vdv@dyomedea.com, xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Also, keep in mind that even when you use a timezone, it is a construction
in the lexical form that is not distinguishable separately in the value.
The difference between
1PM GMT-5
and 6PM GMT (I know these aren't the right lexical forms)
is much like the difference between:
1E+2
and 100.0
in float. The two sets of forms represent the same values, respectively,
and will compare equal. I was against this design choice for date/time, as
I felt that users would expect timezones to be significant if supplied. I
lost, and it's certainly too late to change now. Even when timezones are
supplied, they cannot be seen directly in the value space.
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