user-defined datetime vs other datetime, timezoned or not ?

["Hanssens Bart" <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

One other thing I stumbled upon:

ODF 1.1, 3.1.9 (meta:creation-date) says "To conform with [xmlschema-2],
the date and time format is YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss" (= so that would be
local time, without timezone)

Now, a meta:user-defined can also be a datetime, but 6.7.1
(office:value-type) only talks about [xmlschema-2] 3.2.7, without
explicitly specifying a format. The nasty bit is that xsd:dateTime can
have a timezone suffix, which is very useful of course.

So while I _assume_ the datetime in ODF 1.1, 6.7.1 (and 0DF 1.2,
17.2.1.3, for that matter) is also meant to be YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss, it
would actually make more sense to allow implementations to optionally
specify a timezone on all datetimes, like meta:creation-date and
meta:user-defined.
This boils down to just use xsd:dateTime without additional
restrictions.


(I'll send it to the office-comment list)

Best regards,

Bart