RE: [soa-eerp] I043: BSLA - Zulu Time should be UTC and Needs Reference

["eerp_sy@changfeng.org.cn" <eerp_sy@changfeng.org.cn>]

New working Draft WD06 uploaded at 
www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/33244/BusinessServiceLevelAgreeme
nt-v1.0-spec-wd06.pdf. 

It added the ISO8601 reference on Line # 39-43 and reference UTC on line #
460, 466, 488 and 491.

This issue can be closed.   


Original Message:
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From: eerp_sy@changfeng.org.cn eerp_sy@changfeng.org.cn
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:15:13 -0400
To: wtcox@coxsoftwarearchitects.com, soa-eerp@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-eerp] I043: BSLA - Zulu Time should be UTC and Needs Reference


Issue # I043

For BSLA Spec only

Related issue I042

Original Message:
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From: William Cox wtcox@CoxSoftwareArchitects.com
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:21:37 -0400
To: soa-eerp@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-eerp] NEW Issue: Zulu Time should be UTC and Needs Reference


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Protocol: bqos sla

Artifact: spec

Type: design

Title: Zulu Time should be UTC and Needs Reference

Description:

This issue applies to
BusinessQualityOfService-v1.0-spec-wd04.pdf
BusinessServiceLevelAgreement-v1.0-spec-wd04.pdf

See BQOS lines 250, 301, and BLSA lines 495, 501, 527, 530.

See also e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time  
"...all use UTC (also colloquially referred to as "Zulu Time") to avoid 
confusion about time zones and daylight saving time 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time>" and 
http://hurricanes.noaa.gov/zulu-utc.html "NOAA satellites use Zulu Time 
or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as their time reference. The 
satellite images that appear on NOAA's Web sites are stamped in Zulu time."

The proper non-colloquial usage is "UTC". The expression is typically 
done with ISO8601, explained at 
http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_widely_used_standards/widely_used_s
tandards_other/date_and_time_format.htm 
and http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html . The usage in line 301 
is consistent with ISO8601, but the colloquial terminology is not.


Related issues:

Proposed Resolution:

Change text to indicate UTC.

Provide normative reference to ISO8601. (see OASIS Artifact Naming 
Guidelines).


bill cox
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