Calendar Types
Ashley Yakeley
ashley at semantic.org
Mon Feb 14 22:59:33 EST 2005
In article
<7DFF3BC6CA957441AEADA7F340BFAA340A029358 at GBLONEX11.lon.invesco.com>,
"Bayley, Alistair" <Alistair_Bayley at ldn.invesco.com> wrote:
> > * Should we include a timezone field in CalendarTime?
>
> Yes. If a CalendarTime doesn't carry timezone information with it, then the
> user must bundle it. They will want to do this because (1) they will be
> probably dealing with local time
But could there be occasions when the user wants to deal with calendar
times without time zones?
> (2) a CalendarTime sans timezone is equivalent to UTC,
No, a CalendarTime without a time zone would simply be a local time. It
would not correspond to any particular absolute time.
--
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA
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