TAP Notes

[Arnold Rots]

The absolute end time would have to be "2013-001-02T15:27".

In principle, "P0000-00-00T00:05" would be equivalent to "PT5M".
Would you want to allow that? (it seems superfluous and more cumbersome).

  - Arnold

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On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Dave Morris <dave.morris at metagrid.co.uk>wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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