[redland-dev] Adding date/time datatypes to Rasqal

Morten Frederiksen mof-rdf at mfd-consult.dk
Wed Jul 14 22:19:55 BST 2004


On Wednesday 14 July 2004 22:30, Dave Beckett wrote:
> Yeah, that's the kind of thing that would be needed.  You'd need
> conversions to/from strings ot allow it to be returned to redland or
> whatever.  I'm guessing comparisons could be done by strings but
> wouldn't be quite what you'd want.  You'd also likely want
> specialised date comparison operators (near(date, "7 days")).  W3C
> XML Schema datatypes has some of that I think.
Just a FYI, for my automagic spatial annotation of photos [1], I 
(temporarily, no pun intended) converted all timestamps into an "epoch" time, 
an artificial number, based on the number of seconds rounded to a period of 
eight hours, to be able to easily look up points registered within a 24 hour 
period.

The point being, that while a general conversion and general sort and 
comparison functions would be nice to have, it won't cover all cases.


[1] http://www.wasab.dk/morten/2003/12/point-adder


Regards,
Morten



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