TimeZone issues

I haven’t gotten a chance to work on the actual document. But I do have a list of issues I’d like to make a decision on for Wed’s meeting. Previously we decided that timezones would be defined via a facet with a value space of an zoneinfo/Olsen database identifier – the Olsen database itself would define the timezone and daylight saving times rules for a specific identifier.

1) Should the facet attribute name be “timezone” or “tz”?

2) The Olsen database uses timezone identifiers such as “America/New_York”. The continent portion of the identifier is actually unnecessary and could be shorted to just such as “New_York” – or put another way the city name itself is an unambiguous identifier (as the database is currently defined). Do we wish to use the city name only as the identifier?

3) Should we support any level of “timezone inheritance”. Potentially options:

a) no inheritance: all abstime objects must declare a timezone facet (and what happens if not defined?)

b) document level inheritance: timezone facet is inherited from parent object within document (unlike anything we do today)

c) site level inheritance: timezone facet is inherited from a property on the Lobby object

Brian

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