[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OIC-34) Restrictions formeta:editing-duration

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Bernd Eilers commented on OIC-34:
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@Andreas Guelzow: the problem is that "a month" has ambiguous meaning depending on the context your are in it can mean 30, 31 or 29 days. Therefor the duration is better to be expressed in a number of days or probably even a number of hours (if you want to take also into account that we also have leap-seconds and "a day" is not always exactly 24hours) even if that exceeds 30 Days. 

> Restrictions for meta:editing-duration
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>
>                 Key: OIC-34
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OIC-34
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: ODF11-InteropProfile
>    Affects Versions: Committee Draft
>            Reporter: Bernd Eilers
>            Assignee: Bart Hanssens
>            Priority: Minor
>
>  Section 3.3.2.17 of http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/33633/OpenDocument-v1.2-part1-cd03.odt
> defines <meta:editing-duration> Metadata as an element with a value that conforms to section 3.2.6 of the xmlschema-2 Spezifikation.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#duration
>  
> I interpret the meaning of that value as the total accumulated time during which the document was being edited. Since there can be any
> number of gaps since the document was created where the document was not edited and which would thus not contribute to this total editing time a
> value here that would contain subelements specified as number of years or months does IMHO not make sense although it would be allowed by
> xmlschema-2 section 3.2.6. Number of years and months subelements in such a value being present would only make sense if we would have a
> value for some kind of elapsed time without non counted gaps in between which is not the case here.

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