[Fwd: [office-comment] odf12cd01, meta:creation-date and timezones]

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Hi Patrick,

these sentences are left over from times where we had only a DTD (pre 
ODF 1.0) and may be removed.

Michael

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[office-comment] odf12cd01, meta:creation-date and timezones
Date: 	Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:08:11 +0200
From: 	Hanssens Bart <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>
To: 	office-comment@lists.oasis-open.org




Like ODF 1.1, ODF 1.2cd01 indicates (or at least suggests) that the
datetime format for some predefined metadata elements (like 3.3.2.9,
meta:creation-date) doesn't allow for timezones:

"To conform with [xmlschema-2], the date and time format is
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss."


However, xsd:dateTime allows for an (optional) timezone, and 18.391
office:value-type doesn't mention a format, but simply refers to
[xmlschema-2] 3.2.7

So I suggest to align them, and allow timezones (and fractions of
seconds, for that matter) for the elements meta:creation-date, dc:date,
meta:print-date by simply referring to [xmlschema-2] 3.2.7


Since the timezone is optional anyway, this requires no changes for
existing applications.


Best regards,

Bart


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