Hi Adrian,

I think the issue is that this attribute type is poorly named. It should
be named DateAttributeType.

Having "temporal" attributes is an entirely different ball of wax.

-Justin

Adrian Custer wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> TemporalAttributeType seems like a total hack. It should look a whole
> lot like GeometryAttributeType. That is, it should provide access to a
> TemporalReferencingSystem and should allow lots of different forms: an
> instant (point), an interval (line), a collection (collection: series
> (multipoint), multiinterval (multiline), arbitrary collection), as well
> as an undefined state representing the way things are now where we
> assume all elements exist conjointly and overlap totally. 
> 
> So I can't suggest any reasonable answer to your question apart from 'do
> whatever you like'; we presumably will have to address the temporality
> of elements at some point in the future. ;-) 
> 
> --adrian
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 12:35 -0400, Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently, TemporalAttributeType just tries the default java date format
>> when trying to parse a date value from a string. I would like to
>> slightly modify this to include a set of "common" date formats to try
>> (including the default).
>>
>> Any objections?
>>
>> -Justin
>>
> 
> 
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> 


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