Draft for review: ISO 8601 date work on IS 29500

[Jesper Lund Stocholm]

Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Rae [mailto:Chris.Rae at microsoft.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:12 AM
> To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> Cc: Horton, Gareth
> Subject: Draft for review: ISO 8601 date work on IS 29500
> 
> Hi all - Gareth and I think we have got something to the point where
it
> can be reviewed by WG4. However - this is an early draft. The main
> areas of interest should be, I think, the line items in
"introduction".
> That summarises the work that we've tried to effect in this draft.
> 
> The changes are shown using "faux change tracking" in the document -
> blue text is new; red strikethrough text is to be removed. The part 4
> sections take a little while to get used to - while reading those,
bear
> in mind that Part 4 is an addendum and so adding to or removing from
it
> sometimes takes a little while to get used to on the eye...
> 
> We'd really appreciate a deeper review from anyone with subject matter
> expertise here.

I think you have done a really good job on this.

Not really being an SME on this ...



A couple of typos:

* Page 14 (XIV):

Third paragraph in "date1904"-section has an "a" too many.

* You state on page 5 (V) that "Dates and times are specified in local
time, with no timezone designation permitted.", but on page 21 (XXI) it
says:

"Each unique instant in SpreadsheetML time is stored as an ISO
8601-formatted string, which is made up of a date component, a time
component, and a timezone component."

* A bit further down in the example:

[Example: The time 08:30 could be represented in the following ways
within SpreadsheetML:
08:30 
08:30.00 
end example]

I am pretty sure "08:30.00" should be "08:30:00" (last period exchanged
with at colon).

Would it be relevant with an example containing decimals like
08:30:01.250 ?


* On page 26 (XXVI) - is there any reason for the simple types
ST_Objects and ST_UpdateLinks in the schema to be change tracked (it
looks like they were added).




Med venlig hilsen / Best regards

Jesper Lund Stocholm

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> 
> The document is attached in both IS 29500 and PDF form. I'll also
> introduce it briefly in the WG4 call tomorrow. Gareth and I have a
Live
> Mesh folder that we use to collaborate on this - if anyone would like
> access to the original tracked-changes document, please let either of
> us know and we'll permission you to that work area (the Part 1 changes
> are 22Mb, and as such don't befit emailing).
> 
> Chris