Decision from Monterey:
The E52 Time-Span Scope Note needs to stress that times spans may not have precisely known temporal extents. New scope note: A determination of a range of dates or duration without any further connotations, to be used to confine periods, events, and any other phenomena valid for a certain time. A time appellation is a verbal form which refers to a time-span. The time-span itself is a temporal extent in the sense of Galilean physics. Different time-appellations may express the same time-span. The Time-Span represents the real extent of the entity it refers to, which is always fuzzy to a certain degree and only known in approximation. Respective properties of Time-Span allow to express approximations of a time-span according to our knowledge. Example follows as before. best, Martin -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(810)391625 | Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(810)391609 | Project Leader SIS | Email: [email protected] | | Information Systems Laboratory | Institute of Computer Science | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | | Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | | Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | --------------------------------------------------------------
