Re: SPARQL performance for ORDER BY on large datasets

2009/8/27 Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>:
> On 26 Aug 2009, at 23:11, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
>
>> Talking of data validity - in the data, all the timezones, regardless of
>> time of year, are -04:00, which is a strangeness.
>
> According to Wikipedia there are 22 places (i.e. countries or parts of
> countries) that use UTC-4 all year round (i.e. don't observe daylight
> saving). These include Barbados, Aruba and Bolivia and parts of Brazil and
> Canada.
>
> Given that the data comes from the Library of Congress, one would expect it
> to be formatted to a timezone used in part of the USA, so I humbly offer
> Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands which also use UTC-4 all year round.

Who needs a SPARQL store when you've got Toby? :)

cheers,

Dan

Received on Thursday, 27 August 2009 08:12:16 UTC