Re: editorial comments on http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/DateTime

From: Michael Smith <msmith@clarkparsia.com>
Subject: Re: editorial comments on http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/DateTime
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:00:49 -0400

> 
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 12:26 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> 
> > > We also do not find a justification for having the range of  
> > > timezone be -840 to +840. The range of timezones currently in use  
> > > ranges from UTC-12 to UTC+14 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> > > List_of_time_zones).
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Are we asking for a justification or are we saying we would prefer to  
> > use -12 to +14?
> 
> I propose dropping these two sentences altogether.  The obvious,
> unsatisfying justification is that the BNF for timezones from -14 to +14
> (see [1]) is easier to specify than the BNF for timezones from -12 to
> +14.  The -840 to +840 minute range matches -14 to +14 hour range.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Smith

The problem is that the range of timezone affects the semantics of
dateTime.  Of course we are overriding this part of the semantics.

peter

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