- From: Arnold, Curt <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:34:44 -0700
- To: "'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org'" <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
Trying to unify everything by making time of day a recurring time instance just makes things more complex. Basically, what I would like to see is: time (that is time of day) as a fundamental type with a representation like T11:00:00-05:00. date as a fundamental type with a representation like 1999-11-08. dateTime as an aggregate of these two types with a representation like 1999-11-08T11:00:00-05:00. timeDuration as a fundamental type with a representation like P nnn (Y|M|D|W|H|M|S). This would allow things like a 120 day return policy that could not be represented using the dateTime like formulation. Not allowing combination (like 1M5D) would eliminate the ambiguity that would occur when the order of addition would result in different dates. Time Periods, repeating time instances, repeating time periods, etc, should have no built-in datatypes but should be represented in the schema by combinations of dateTimes and/or timeDurations.
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