I want to help drive closure on Timestamps and breach the topic of
Temporal Intervals* for the next major version.
I posit there are two distinct temporal aspects to the _expression_ of "things" and their relationships to other "things" in the CTI Domain.
(1) Absolute: "Event x" happened at absolute Time "T1".
(2) Relative Intervals: "Event x" happened "Relative To(Rn**)" "Event y" [at relative interval "Interval In"]**Where Rn = [Before, During, After, At_Start_Of, At_End_Of, ...]
Therefore, we need to represent these temporal concepts in different forms (breaking the "One way to do Things" rule on the basis that these are two different "Things").
I believe we are very close to reaching consensus on
Absolute Timestamps. I propose that we should specifically identify and treat
Temporal Intervals as a separate requirement and topic for discussion somewhere in the Road Map.
(IF there is consensus: perhaps as part of Relationships and/or Patterning???)
* To set the framework for what is meant by "Temporal Intervals", and some approaches one can consider in their representation, I refer everyone to James Allen's seminal paper from 1983:
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