[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T145532: HH:MM:SS time in Wikidata (new datatype or display option for quantity datatype?)

2018-04-07 Thread Sillyfolkboy
Sillyfolkboy added a comment. On the point of precision, just read the detail at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes#Time. If possible we will need precision up to a hundredth of a second (e.g. 800 metres world record is 1:40.91). Precision only up to tenths of a second (e.g. 9.2

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T145532: HH:MM:SS time in Wikidata (new datatype or display option for quantity datatype?)

2018-04-07 Thread Sillyfolkboy
Sillyfolkboy added a comment. I have been discussing known issues of this data type with the webmaster at Association of Road Racing Statisticians and he has raised a point about needing precision. For example, if only the hours are known rather than the seconds, then that "03:00:00"

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Commented On] T145532: HH:MM:SS time in Wikidata (new datatype or display option for quantity datatype?)

2018-04-07 Thread Sillyfolkboy
Sillyfolkboy added a comment. In T145532#3820328, @Jc3s5h wrote: The proposal is not for expressing time-of-day, it is to express a duration. Durations do not have time zones. What if the duration is more than 24 hours? Should the quantity allow durations greater that 24 hours to be expressed as