Re: Proposed changes for properties document

timezoned is fine with me

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:50 PM, ext Thomas Roessler wrote:

> On 18 Feb 2009, at 00:27, Frederick Hirsch wrote:
>
>> Thanks for these suggested changes. By timezoned I assume you mean
>> times must be expressed in UTC, if so would it be more obvious to
>> state that times must be expressed as UTC (although timezoned is
>> clear in conjunction with schema reference).
>
> Since the time zone mechanism for dateTime expressions can do without
> reference to some external database, I don't think we need to impose
> UTC.
>
> The main point here is that schema defines two different time scales,
> and that comparison of an untimezoned and a timezoned value isn't  
> well-
> defined
>
> (While I like the fact that every noun can be verbed in English, I
> have to say that "timezoned" and "untimezoned" sound awful.)
>

Received on Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:06:36 UTC