[tei-council] <date>, <distance>, and <measure>

[Lou Burnard]

Syd Bauman wrote:
> Perhaps <measurement> isn't the right alternative to P4's <distance>,
> but rather a(nother) nested <time> or <date>? In which case, if you
> really want to structure your relative times, you would use
>
>   I was able to get online <time>
>     <time dur="PT4M">four minutes</time>
>     <offset>before</offset>
>     <time>midnight</time>
>   </time>
>
> and the rest of us would just use
>
>   <time>four minutes before midnight</time>
>
>   

That would make marginally more sense. But I stand by my original 
assertion that we should drop <offset> as a child of <time> as well as 
all the other components.