[tei-council] datatype issues (part 1)

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Lou Burnard wrote:

> The trouble with right truncation, then, is that you have to know the
> time zone before you know how to interpret the time? and the timezone
> indicator is the rightmost part being truncated?

not sure about that. I was not implying TZ was the *reason* for
disallowing truncation.

>
> Duh! they should have put the time zone indicator FIRST!

TZ was probably an afterthought and the implementation followed that :-}

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