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Re: What does it mean: chronologically less

• From: Bob Kline <bkline@r...>
• To: Miloslav Nic <nicmila@i...>
• Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:35:43 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Miloslav Nic wrote:

> Reading through the XML Schema specification, I am doubting what
> chronologically less actually means
> 
> is the 10th October 2000 chronologically less or greater than 12th
> October 2000 ?
> 
> I can imagine an explanation for both variants, so which one is the
> right one?

What real incentive would there be for diverging from the semantics of
date1 < date2 in standard SQL (in which date1 is earlier than date2)?

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Bob Kline
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