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At 02:55 PM 4/17/01 -0700, Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI wrote: > > > How would you define 24hours=1day, or 2minutes < 150 seconds in your > > > atom/molecule model? > > > > Ah, if only! But some days are *not* 24h, but rather 24h0m1s long. > >I think that's one of the motivation of Simon. If you have to take leap >second into account, then it would be better if you can create it from >atoms, instead of pushing your requirement into the part 2 spec. > >In that way, many different calendar type can be creatable. It's much >simpler and better than creating one monolithic mighty-powerful date >time. That's _exactly_ what I'm hoping to reach, though I'm still in the very beginning stages of the journey. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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