TAP Notes

[Dave Morris]

On 2013-12-06 12:33, Mark Taylor wrote:
> 
> Sec 3.2.1:
> 
> In principle a quote is for a job which could be started at any
> point (not just now), so quoting an absolute end time doesn't
> make sense.  From that point of view number of seconds is better
> than ISO8601.
> 

Just a thought, but ISO8601 includes support for durations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations

We could allow either an absolute end time '20130102T1527',
or a relative duration 'PT5M' for a job waiting in a queue.

The 'P' prefix for the relative duration would enable us to
distinguish between them.

Dave