Re: Round up of activity and status for SDW-IG

Sorry for the delay.

Here’s the latest update on WebVMT, posted to w3c/strategy: https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/113#issuecomment-470230013 <https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/113#issuecomment-470230013>. The w3c/sdw WebVMT project has now been updated too: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/8 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/8>

Rob Smith

Away Team
www.awayteam.co.uk <http://www.awayteam.co.uk/>

WebVMT Status Update

 • Progress Made

  • Updated the Javascript playback engine to comply with the latest Editor's Draft.
  • Updated the prototype Android app to comply with the latest Editor's Draft.
  • Continued to advance the proposed DataCue activity in the WICG. Thanks to Chris Needham for his ongoing support.

 • Next Steps

  • Update the WebVMT.org website to comply with the latest Editor's Draft.
  • Officially form the WebVMT Community Group.
  • Begin interoperability testing with early adopters.
  • Implement outstanding features documented in the latest Editor's Draft.
  • Continue community outreach and identify more activities to promote progress towards the standardisation track.

> On 6 Mar 2019, at 22:32, Jeremy Tandy <jeremy.tandy@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi folks. A little later than planned, but see below a round up of the work we have on our books. You’ll see in a number of cases that there is no clear progress on activities - it would really help if project leaders could update their project summaries and activity boards so potential helpers can see what needs to be done. 
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> I noticed some updates from Simon while I was typing this evening. So there may be some things a little out of sync with what’s below. 
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> Hopefully the round up will help us focus on what needs to be done in March.
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> Best regards. Jeremy
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> Outstanding Pull Requests https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pulls <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pulls> :
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> 1.      OWL-Time – Editorial changes in response to #1114 (errata) https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/1115 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/1115> ... Currently undergoing review (Simon, Francois)
> 2.      [SSN] Add erratum for bad IP68 Smart Sensor link (errata) https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/1112 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/1112> … PR is approved (Simon), awaiting merge (Francois)
> 3.      ISSUE-1103 Update references to SWEET in eo-qb document https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/1104 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/1104> … still awaiting review from editors of EO-QB doc
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> W3C Profiles Ontology FPWD (Nicholas Car, Rob Atkinson)
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> A reminder for you feedback. See here for details: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Jan/0000.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Jan/0000.html>
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> SAW 2019 (Maxime Lefrancois) 
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> First call for international workshop on sensors and actuators on the Web 2019 (SAW 2019). Deadline for submission of papers is June 28th. See here for more details: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Mar/0001.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Mar/0001.html>
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> OGC engagement w Web of Things folks (George Percival)
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> George had a face to face meeting with WoT folks at the tail end of January. See his email here:https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0007.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0007.html> 
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> He cites the following list of topics that OGC might like to coordinate with W3C:
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> - Add Location to the Thing Description (TD)
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> - Model “Observation” as an WOT “action” 
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> - Datastream
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> - WoT binding template for SensorThings
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> - Compliance test
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> Spatial Data on the Web best practices (Michael Gordon)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/1 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/1>
> Hot topics identified in project summary are issues 1050 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1050 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1050> (creating a playbook to describe implementing the best practices in a series of steps – not updated since June 2018) and 1051https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1051 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1051> (implementation report template – marked as “done”, but issue remains open … should this be closed?)
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> Seems like the ‘hot topics’ list would benefit from an update.
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> On the project activity board 9 issues pending (“to do”) and 1 issue is in progress.
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> Issues 1085 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1085 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1085> (BP 2 - Value and approach for indexing individual spatial things) and 1086 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1086 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1086> (BP14 – Approach to describing positional accuracy) are marked as “help wanted”.
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> None of these issues have been updated since October 2018; some earlier still. The “in progress” issue #991https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/991 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/991> (Get feedback on spatial data BP from OGC Members at next TC) hasn’t been updated since January 2018.
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> The most recent update to the <code> (gh-pages branch) is from 2-months ago – the North-Rhine Westphalia implementation report submitted by Clemens.
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> Can we get a revised plan for this item?
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> Statistical data on the Web (Bill Roberts)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/2 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/2>
> No topics or issues are identified in the project summary page as needing help from the SDW-IG community.
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> On the project activity board 1 issue is pending and 2 are in progress.
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> Pending (to do): 1052 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1052 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1052> (prepare notes on each DWBP in the context of stats) – not updated since July 2018.
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> Also pending are liaison activities with UN GGIM and the [forming] OGC Statistics DWG.
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> In progress: 980 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/980 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/980>(use case - parameter qualifiers) and 981https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/981 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/981> (use case - temporal constructs) … neither of these have had meaningful update since 2017.
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> <code> (gh-pages branch) has not been updated since August 2018.
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> Can we get a revised plan for this work item?
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> SSN/SOSA ontology amendments (Simon Cox)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/3 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/3>
> The project summary page identifies issues 1006 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1006 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1006> (Add SSN hasProperty to SOSA namespace) and 1022https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1022 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1022> (Inverse property for ssn:hasSubSystem) as open issues. Issue 1022 is marked as closed – the project summary page should be updated.
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> On the project activity board, there are no pending issues and only a single issue in progress: issue 1006https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1006 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1006> (Add SSN hasProperty to SOSA namespace). During TPAC 2018, the IG voted to add ‘hasProperty’ to the SOSA namespacehttps://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1006#issuecomment-432134675 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1006#issuecomment-432134675> – pending agreement from all SSN/SOSA editors. @kjano objected in this post:https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1006#issuecomment-432421956 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1006#issuecomment-432421956>. Simon asked for clarification in November 2018 and is still awaiting response from @kjano.
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> Issue 1111 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1111 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1111> (Link error in IP68 Smart Sensor example – relates to outstanding Pull Request 1112 which is approved and awaiting merge) isn’t listed on the project activity cards. It should be added.
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> SSN Primer (Armin Haller)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/4 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/4>
> There’s still no activity on this project.
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> Back in June 2018 at the Fort Collins F2F Armin said we have received acceptance notification of our SSN paper in the SemWeb journal which could form the basis of an SSN primer, but given the length of the paper he wasn’t entirely sure if it's needed? Simon noted that the paper is not a primer - it's an overview and a more digestable overview for those that don't want to look at the REC.
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> Did we agree to close this project? If so, can we agree remove it from our list of active projects?
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> Time ontology amendments (Chris Little, Simon Cox)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/5 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/5>
> The project summary states that there are no open issues [being actively worked on].
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> On the project activity board there are no issues in progress and one pending (to do): 1114https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1114 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1114> (OGC CRS WG comments on OWL-Time). There has been plenty of discussion on the mailing lists about this issue. Simon collated the discussion here: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1114#issuecomment-462176890 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1114#issuecomment-462176890>. Also there is a an outstanding pull request relating to this issue which is currently under review by Francois and Simon: 1115 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/1115 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/1115> (OWL-Time – Editorial changes in response to #1114).
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> See discussion during February on the mailing list here: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0006.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0006.html> , https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0011.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0011.html>
> Clearly there is work going on – this issue should be moved to “in progress” and the project summary updated accordingly.
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> Responding to a question from Frans Knibbe, Simon noted that temporal interval relations were added to the IANA link relations registry back in December – see here:https://github.com/link-relations/registry/issues/4 <https://github.com/link-relations/registry/issues/4>.
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> Describing moving objects (Krzysztof Janowicz)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/6 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/6>
> No issues are visible on the project activity board.
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> Back in January, Jano said that he was ready to push forward this activity, adopting an approach similar to SOSA, namely break down the complexity of some of the existing specs to find a common core that can make for a widely used vocabulary/ontology.
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> Please can we have some details added to the project and have some kind of outline plan?
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> SSN Extensions (SimonCox)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/7 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/7>
> The project summary page identifies three activities for which help is needed. But – at TPAC 2018 the IG agreed to publish SSN Extensions as FPWD, subject to the agreed editorial fixes. See minutes here:https://www.w3.org/2018/10/23-sdw-minutes.html#x02 <https://www.w3.org/2018/10/23-sdw-minutes.html#x02>.
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> Are these three activities really still the focus points for SSN extensions? Does the project summary page need updating? Also, the project summary could do with a link to the published Working Draft.
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> On the project activity board there is one issue pending and three in progress.
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> Issues 1026 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1026 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1026>(Alignment of ObservationCollection to Datastream) and 1027 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1027 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1027> (worked examples using hasUltimateFeatureOfInterest) are marked as “help wanted”. 1026 and 1027 haven’t been updated since April 2018. Are these still priority topics?
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> Given that the in progress issues haven’t been updated since _way_ before the vote on FPWD, are these issues still live?
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> During February additional serialisations were added to the examples in ssn-ext.
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> WebVMT (Rob Smith)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/8 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/8>
> On the project activity board there are 3 pending issues and 1 in progress. Issue 1063 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1063 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1063> (WebVMT: Identify ideas for OGC Test Bed involvement) is marked “help wanted”. There has been no updates on this issue since December 2018.
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> Next steps identified in February were:
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> i. Complete the Javascript playback engine update to the latest Editor's Draft http://w3c.github.io/sdw/proposals/geotagging/webvmt/ <http://w3c.github.io/sdw/proposals/geotagging/webvmt/>
> ii. Officially form the WebVMT Community Group https://www.w3.org/community/webvmt-cg/ <https://www.w3.org/community/webvmt-cg/>
> iii. Continue community outreach and identify more activities to promote progress towards the standardisation track
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> Geospatial Web Roadmap (Linda vd Brink)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/9 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/9>
> The project summary identifies Issue 1065 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1065 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1065> (Group review of roadmap) as needing input from the IG members.
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> On the project activity board, 1 issue is pending and 2 are in progress.
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> In progress issues include 1065 (see above) and 1079 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1079 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1079> (Discuss list of non webby OGC standards with OGC Architecture Board)
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> The OGC’s Web  API Guidelines are here: https://github.com/opengeospatial/OGC-Web-API-Guidelines <https://github.com/opengeospatial/OGC-Web-API-Guidelines>
> These guidelines are useful for the roadmap because they enable us to objectively define which OGC standards we consider “Webby”.
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> See comments:
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> -        Clemens https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0015.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0015.html>
> -        Joseph https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0014.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0014.html>
> -        Rob Smith https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0012.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Feb/0012.html>
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> MapML (Peter Rushforth) 
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/10 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/10>
> The MapML CG has been active through February, largely driven by activities in OGC Testbeds. No specific request for assistance.
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> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Mar/0002.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdwig/2019Mar/0002.html>
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> CoverageJSON (Mark Hedley)
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> Project page: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/11 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/projects/11>
> There are currently no issues listed on the project activity board as this is a new activity.
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> CoverageJSON was discussed during the closing plenary of the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Singapore, February 2019. The TC offered broad support for developing Coverage JSON as a formal OGC standard, with one option being to pursue this activity within the scope of the Web Coverage Service Standards Working Group (WCS SWG).
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> CityJSON (Hugo Ledoux)
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> CityJSON is being tracked in the W3C Strategy Funnel as ISSUE #114 https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/114 <https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/114>.
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> Standardisation efforts for CityJSON are currently paused. See Hugo’s presentation from TPAC here:https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwkt9qqbra1ty8w/2018-10-22-w3c-cityjson.key.pdf?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwkt9qqbra1ty8w/2018-10-22-w3c-cityjson.key.pdf?dl=0>
> At TPAC, SDW IG resolved the following:
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> In principal, the Spatial Data on the Web IG strongly supports the need to create a feedback loop between practical experience implementing a spec and its design to create effective standards implemented by the wider community. The SDW IG will work on a formal response on CityGML v3 raising technical concerns to be sent to the tc-discuss OGC list.
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> What is the status? I’ve been out of the loop a bit, but don’t see anything on the SDW-IG mailing list to this effect.
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> New project proposals
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> There are 3 pending project proposals:
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> 1.      Issue 1095 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1095 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1095>(OWL Space) - proposed in November 2018
> 2.      Issue 1068 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1068 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1068>(Dicing or partitioning Ontology for RDF Data Cubes) – proposed in August 2018
> 3.      Issue 1067 https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1067 <https://github.com/w3c/sdw/issues/1067>(360 day calendar) - proposed in August 2018
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> Please can you review the proposals and determine whether you would be able to contribute effort.
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Received on Friday, 8 March 2019 15:05:30 UTC