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With some dismay, I discovered this morning that the treatment of the seven- property time model in our status-quo document describes the timezone component as as integer (representing a number of minutes). This is a change from 1.0, which describes timezones as durations, and it conflicts with the treatment of timezones in the QT data model. (Since normalization and denormalization involve addition and subtraction of timezones to dateTime values, treating timezones as integers would lead to some inconvenience for F and O.) Perhaps I was asleep at the switch at the moment when we discussed this, in which case I apologize to the Working Group and anyone else concerned for failing to raise this issue then. But I think this is an important, though small, issue. I propose that as a matter of some urgency the WG ask the editors to prepare a wording proposal changing timezones back to being durations. Error concerning Part 2 The Seven-property Model Transition history raised on 1 Mar 2005 by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/ Public/www-xml-schema-comments/2005JanMar/0024.html) agreed on 19 May 2005 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-wg/ 2005May/att-0024/ Minutes_of_the_W3C_XML_Schema_Working_Group_5th__38th__F2F_meeting.htm) RESOLVED Close wd-16 by instructing editors to reintroduce the word 'duration', but not the claim that it is an instance of xs:duration. Acknowledgment cycle announced by group on 19 May 2005 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml- schema-wg/2005May/att-0024/ Minutes_of_the_W3C_XML_Schema_Working_Group_5th__38th__F2F_meeting.htm) agreement by reviewer on 19 May 2005 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c- xml-schema-wg/2005May/att-0024/ Minutes_of_the_W3C_XML_Schema_Working_Group_5th__38th__F2F_meeting.htm) Action history Part 2 Editors accepted on 19 May 2005 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-wg/ 2005May/att-0024/ Minutes_of_the_W3C_XML_Schema_Working_Group_5th__38th__F2F_meeting.htm) DT editors to prepare an editorial proposal to resolve wd-33.
(In reply to comment #0) > Action history > Part 2 Editors > accepted on 19 May 2005 (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-wg/ > 2005May/att-0024/ > Minutes_of_the_W3C_XML_Schema_Working_Group_5th__38th__F2F_meeting.htm) > > DT editors to prepare an editorial proposal to resolve wd-33. It appears that the resolution has been introduced into the status quo document (2d para, E.2.1): "There is also a seventh integer property which specifies the timezone, which is conceptually a duration measuring the offset of times with that timezone from ·UTC·. Values for the six primary properties are always stored in their "local" values (the values shown in the lexical representations), rather than converted to ·UTC·."