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Subject:

zoneOffset needs rework

From:

Saašha Metsärantala <[log in to unmask]>

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Discussion of the Developing Date/Time Standards <[log in to unmask]>

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Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:14:19 +0200

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Hello!

As of the examples at #002, a zone-offset may be appended to a time, such as

2004-01-01T10:10:10+05:00

According to the BNF, such a construct is valid, but the day or monthDay
is optional. The BNF allows both

2004-01T10:10:10+05:00

and

2004T10:10:10+05:00

which is ... "undocumented" in the specification. My guess is that this is
not what we want, is it? At level zero, I suggest to rewrite dateAndTime as:

dateAndTime = yearMonthDay "T" time

But, what do we want at level one and level two? Do we want to be able to
include zone-offsets in lists and intervals?

It is also impossible to specify a zone-offset without an expressed,
certain and non-approximate "second precision". More exactly, all these
are excluded

2004-01-01T10:10:(10)?+05:00

2004-01-01T10:uu:uu+05:00

2004-01-01T(10)~+05:00

etc. according to both the specification and the BNF. Maybe that is not
exactly what we want ...

Regards!

SaaĊĦha,

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