[MOBY-dev] Versioning of LSID's + vote on RFC 1913 & 1914

[Mark Wilkinson]

A question for Martin - does the "milliseconds since epoch" number tell us  
which time zone the milliseconds were measured in?

If not, then the discussion is somewhat moot...  All we're trying to  
generate is a unique string.  If that unique string has some interpretable  
value, then maybe we gain something, maybe not (but we shouldn't be coding  
as if it did either way, since we're not supposed to interpret LSID fields)

M




On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:07:29 -0800, Pieter Neerincx  
<Pieter.Neerincx at wur.nl> wrote:

>  From the W3C profile of the ISO-8601 specification:
> "This profile defines two ways of handling time zone offsets:
>
> 1. Times are expressed in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), with a
> special UTC designator ("Z").
> 2. Times are expressed in local time, together with a time zone
> offset in hours and minutes. A time zone offset of "+hh:mm" indicates
> that the date/time uses a local time zone which is "hh" hours and
> "mm" minutes ahead of UTC. A time zone offset of "-hh:mm" indicates
> that the date/time uses a local time zone which is "hh" hours and
> "mm" minutes behind UTC.
> A standard referencing this profile should permit one or both of
> these ways of handling time zone offsets.
>
> Examples
>
> 1994-11-05T08:15:30-05:00 corresponds to November 5, 1994, 8:15:30
> am, US Eastern Standard Time.
>
> 1994-11-05T13:15:30Z corresponds to the same instant."
>
> So we should choose whether to permit time in UTC (with the "Z"),
> time in local time (+/-hh:mm) or both... I don't have any specific
> preference for either of the two but I guess supporting only one of
> them makes lief easier as compared to supporting both. Whatever the
> choice is I vote YES on both RFC 1913 and 1914.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pieter.
>
>
> On 27-Jan-2006, at 2:34 AM, Martin Senger wrote:
>
>>> I guess it will be in whatever time-zone that particular registry is
>>> in...
>>>
>>    I think that if you go ISO way, the 'Z' should be present (if not
>> GMT) - at least that what I vaguely remember about this date/time
>> spec.
>>
>>    Martin
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