[osis-core] div type="date"

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Sorry, this may be ignorant question/comments, but:

Is there a reason for allowing AM PM at all, instead of:

01.01 and 13.01

and my opinion is that if you want 06 and 18 to mean sunrise and sunset 
for a certain language, then you can interpret those time as such.


	-Troy.



Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I think it would be nice to define as "canonical" at least one pair or
> values (morning/evening, AM/PM, etc...).  If I had to pick only one I
> would probably go with AM/PM (01.01.AM and 01.01.PM) and make
> (01.01!Morning/01.01!Evening and 01.01!Sunrise/01.01!Sunset) local
> extensions.  The idea being to encourage consistency.  
> 
> Naturally it would be possible for anyone to use 01.01!Matins but I
> think they might be more of a special case.
> 
> Question: How should we identify this "reference system" we are
> constructing?  In the following example of what seems like a good idea
> to me, with the "reference system" being "Calendar"
> 
> <osisText osisWorkID="SpurgenMorningAndEvening" osisWorkRef="bible">
> 	<work workID="SpurgenMorningAndEvening">
> 		<title>Morning and Evening</title>
> 		<author>Charles Spurgeon</author>
> 		<referenceSystem>Calendar</referenceSystem>
> 	</work>
> 	<work workID="bible">
> 		<referenceSystem>Bible</referenceSystem>
> 	</work>
> 	<div>
> 		<div type="dailyReading" osisID="01.01.AM">
> 			<reference osisRef="Gen.1.1"/>
> 			...
> 		</div>
> 	</div>
> </osisText>
> 
> Is the above structure consistent with what everyone is thinking?
> 
> It would seem that there should be a difference between a generic day of
> the year (01.01) and specific dates (2003.5.30)
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
>>admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Little
>>Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:13 AM
>>To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
>>Subject: RE: [osis-core] div type="date"
>>
>>On Wed, 28 May 2003, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Vigils, Matins, Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, & Compline are
>>>
> the
> 
>>>>medieval prayer times.  Lauds/Vespers would probably be more
>>>
> precise
> 
>>>>for both Sunrise/Sunset and AM/PM, but since no one knows those,
>>>
> I'm
> 
>>>>not recommending them.
>>>
>>>What would this look like?  (01.01.Sunrise and 01.01.Sunset)?
>>
>>I guess that sounds semi-reasonable.  At least I haven't thought of
>>anything that seems better if we want to suggest all these times as
>>possibilities.
>>
>>Maybe these non-canonical dates ought to be expressed like
> 
> 01.01!Sunrise.
> 
>>(And what about leap day?  That's clearly an apocryphal date.  Sorry,
> 
> it
> 
>>was too obvious to pass up.)
>>
>>Considering that Sunrise is the median point of the AM span and Sunset
> 
> is
> 
>>the median point of the PM span, maybe we should just merge these into
> 
> a
> 
>>more general "Morning" & "Evening" and not specify whether it
> 
> indicates
> 
>>point or span.  If you need to be accurate, use a time.
>>
>>--Chris
>>
>>
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