UPDATE: KEP 2: Modification of datetime type: introduction of 'tz' attribute (revision 10737)

Hendrik Helwich h.helwich at tarent.de
Thu Dec 16 10:32:44 CET 2010


Hi Georg,

Am Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2010 19:50:26 schrieb Georg C. F. Greve:
> Hi all,
>
> Based on plenty of feedback collected on the list, as well as through hours
> of telephone calls with Till Adam, Allen Winter and Bernhard Reiter, I've
> tried to work in all the feedback, with the most important changes being:
>
>  * tz now an attribute, not a nested tag
>  * RFC3339 parsing now optional

This looks great :-)

Best regards,

Hendrik

> You can find the updated version online at the usual location:
>
> 	http://wiki.kolab.org/User:Greve/Drafts:KEP:2
>
>
> Some background is that the people working on Kontact would find it a lot
> easier to work with attributes than nested tags.
>
> This also being the more elegant solution, and provided that noone objected
> while some people explicitly stated this was not a problem, I think it
> makes sense to move down that path.
>
> Also the way the Zulu format is mandated has been adjusted to match Henriks
> explicit preference, with an explicit notion that this MIGHT be changed for
> other events later.
>
> And finally, the parsing of RFC3339 or ISO8601 has become a recommended
> option for clients to increase robustness, but is no longer mandatory. From
> a long discussion with Bernhard also followed that we'll likely propose a
> KEP that mandates client behaviour for checking the correctness of entries,
> and suggested reactions.
>
> So expect more on that front in the future.
>
> In the meantime, the KEP also has more rationale, some more verbose
> explanations where people suggested the rationale should be extended, and
> hopefully some useful restructuring / editing.
>
> Please give this one a fresh read if you care about the outcome.
>
> Best regards,
> Georg




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