[glue-wg] date and time in glue2

[Balazs Konya]

hi,

During the last phone meeting we touched upon the question of how to represent
timestamp-like information in glue2.

The corresponding action item was this:
"Balazs: to check if UR WG adopt dateType XML Schema type or POSIX timestamp"

I did some investigation and found that the UR group of OGF indeed makes use of 
the xsd:dateTime. (see their spec https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14337?nav=1)


xsd:dateTime is a "profile" of the ISO 8601, in the sense that it selects the
particular
[-]CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss[Z|(+|-)hh:mm] "extended format"
of the large number of date/time formats defined by the ISO 8601 standard.
It also excludes the "basic format".


some references:
http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/ch19-77049.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601


cheers,
Balazs