- From: Don Chamberlin <chamberl@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:54:14 -0800
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Received on Thursday, 4 March 2004 08:54:47 UTC
(IBM-FO-024): In Section 9.3, Comparison of Duration, Date, and Time Values, the last paragraph says "If the timezone part is (), the implicit timezone is used to adjust the normalized value as necessary." I am wondering why this rule is found only in the description of the comparison functions and not other functions that operate on dates and times. Section 9.4 (Component Extraction Functions) does not state such a rule. Section 9.7, which contains arithmetic functions on dates and times, says "If any argument ... does not contain an explicit timezone, then ... an implicit timezone ... is assumed to be present." This rule does not say anything about adjusting the normalized value. I find it confusing that the rule dealing with implicit timezones is stated in different and possibly conflicting ways in Sections 9.3 and 9.7, and missing in Section 9.4. --Don Chamberlin
Received on Thursday, 4 March 2004 08:54:47 UTC