Re: [provision] Time values...

[Gary P Cole <Gary.P.Cole@Sun.COM>]

Thanks, Jeff.  I'll note this under spec issue #27. Draft 9 will address 
this.

Bohren, Jeffrey wrote:

> In the suspend capability there is an effective date attribute. To 
> precisely specify the time format I think we should include text 
> similar to the SAML 2.0 specification. It normatively defines time 
> values as follows:
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> 1.2.3 Time Values
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> All SAML time values have the type xs:dateTime, which is built in to 
> the W3C XML Schema Datatypes specification [Schema2], and MUST be 
> expressed in UTC form, with no time zone component.
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> SAML system entities SHOULD NOT rely on time resolution finer than 
> milliseconds. Implementations MUST NOT generate time instants that 
> specify leap seconds.
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