Date/Time fields

[Stuart Booth]

Here's the Date/Time proposal from Gerry Duprey:

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DATETIME=YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
DATETIME=YYYYMMDD
DATETIME=HHMMSS
Use of this format for a date/time is MANDATORY if you device
broadcasts a date and/or time in an xAP message. If you are
broadcasting only a date, then drop the last 6 characters from the
message. If you are broadcasting only a time, drop the first 8
characters. A simple parse rule is:

LEN=12 - Full date/time in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
LEN=8 - Date Only in YYYYMMDD
LEN=6 - Time Only in HHMMSS

Any other length is invalid and the date/time should be discarded.

FORMATTED_DATE=Feb 23, 2002
FORMATTED_TIME=12:45 PM
These are optional but encoruaged. The date/time are not meant to be
parsed and as such are not subject to any particular formatting rules.
But it is expected that however they are formatted is suitable for
unaltered display to a user and expected to be readily
recognizable/understandable by that user.
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This was proposed in December last year. And we're still discussing
this sort of thing nearly a year later. I believe I know somebody
that'll be laughing (or sighing) at that (IanL!)!

Anyway, the above is what I long ago adopted and what I use for all of
my schema date/time fields, as it's directly supported by my xAP
framework.

Scanning quickly through the older emails to the very original xAP
list makes for some interesting reading. Found an old mail schema that
looks nothing like anything I've ever seen since!!

Hey, at least your schema diff list didn't include the email one,
Stuart(P) !! :-)) We have Patrick's and my new one's a superset of
that which seemed appropriate to me at the time.

S
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