Em Qua, 2009-09-09 às 14:49 +0400, Richard Hainsworth escreveu: > Carl Mäsak wrote: > > I fear that the "Instant" from S02 is a fossil. "Instant" was renamed > > by Dave Rolsky to "DateTime" on 2009-02-19. > There was fairly extensive discussion. My recollection was that > 'Instant' and 'Duration' were preferred. > Since a TAI epoch value is the underlying metric, how about a 'TAI' as > the type (in place of DateTime)?
One thing that needs to be clarified here is that DateTime provides semantics that Instant doesn't. Instant is a TAI epoch value, DateTime is a fully-qualified date and time specification according to some specific Calendar. I'm comitting a new revision of the Temporal spec now that should make this distinction even clearer... daniel