On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:11:50AM +0100, Thomas Beale wrote: > There is no assumption in ACTIVITY.time that the activity is > repeated. In the GTS syntax, you can just as easily express a one-off > event at a certain time as you can a repeated event. If you use cron > syntax, I think you just put a full date / time from memory (although > that's pretty unusual usage of cron syntax). > > One crucial thing is to ensure that these data remain interoperable. > To do that, we need to limit the syntaxes that could be used in > ACTIVITY.timing to a reasonably small number, and standardise their > use. I am not sure for example, if it will be a good idea to have 3 > ways of expressing '3 times/day for 7 days' or other typical things.
Adding a namespace (prepending "cron://", "GTS://" or some such) may help. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
