Re: Core Component Analysis - SWIFT's Comments

[Sandy Klausner <klausner@coretalk.net>]

Title: Re: Core Component Analysis - SWIFT's Comments

Doesn't the adoption of ISO 8601 take care of the time zone problem with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)?
Sandy
> From: Joaquin Miller <miller@joaquin.net>
> Reply-To: Joaquin Miller <joaquin@acm.org>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:43:56 -0800
> To: "William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@foresightcorp.com>
> Cc: ebXML Core <ebxml-core@lists.ebxml.org>
> Subject: Re: Core Component Analysis - SWIFT's Comments

> This is just an example, of course, but the time is underspecified.  Perhaps the reason for the ellipsis is that one more thing is needed to describe a BirthDate: time zone or location.  
>
> (Well, 'time zone' is probably not the right term, but you all know what i mean; PDT, for example.)
>
> At 09:51 AM 1/22/2001 -0500, William J. Kammerer wrote:
> > As an aside,  I'm a little confused by the ellipses in <BirthDate> and
> > <DeathDate>, since there's very little more that one could add to these
> > elements: date and time are pretty much all you need to describe a
> > BirthDate.
> >   <Party> ...
> >       <BirthDate>
> >         <Date>20010101</Date>
> >         <Time>102300</Time>
> >          ..........
> >       </BirthDate>
>    </Party
>
>
> Cordially,
>
> Joaquin 
>
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