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Subject: Re: [office] ODF TC Teleconference Agenda for September 10, 2018
Regina, On 09/09/2018 01:27 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > Patrick Durusau schrieb am 09-Sep-18 um 15:47: > [..] >> >> c. Francis Cave also raised a possible issue with the date and time >> functions in part 4, 6.10 Date and Time Functions >> >> Our discussion started on 6.10.5 DAY, > > Can you please point me to "our discussion" ? > I was reporting a discussion with Francis Cave where this issue was informally mentioned. The gist of it is as reported in my email. > Âwhere the summary reads: "Returns the date from a date." > > "Summary: Returns the day from a date.", both in standard and working > draft. > > Âand the Semantics reads: "Returns the day portion of a date." > > >> >> We do have a DATE function, Summary: Constructs a date from year, >> month, and day of the month." which goes on to define the syntax, but >> the definition of DAY, does not refer to this function. > > The DATE function my be evaluated for values for month and day, which > do not really exists, e.g. "=DATE(2018;8;33)", which will give > "2018-09-02" in ISO date format. And the DATE function results in a > number, that get a "day portion" only by formatting. Therefore I > suggest not to use the DATE function in a reference. > >> >> Question: Should this be a reference to "Date" in 4.3.3, but then >> should 4.3.3 define year, month and day "portions?" I think the >> present text assumes year-month-day but it doesn't explicitly say that. > > I think, that "day portion" is clear enough. In case you want a > reference to a year-month-day notation, we can use the notation > description for office:value-type="date" (ODF 1.2 part 1, Â19.385). > Thanks! > BTW, I'm more concerned, that a hint is missing, that the values of > these functions depend on the <table:null-date> element; perhaps > something to consider for Â6.10.1 General for ODF 1.4. > Thanks! Hope you are having a great weekend! Patrick > Kind regards > Regina > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php -- Patrick Durusau patrick@durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau
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