Fwd: RE: [xsl] Retrieving the date of processing

[Lisa Settle <lsettle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:12:04 +0100
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> Subject: RE: [xsl] Retrieving the date of processing
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>  Hi Daniel.  Hadn't realised it was accessible, sorry.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Daniel Bibbens
>
>     Yes. Anyone may use the URL I provided earlier
>     (http://xobjex.com/cgi-bin/date.pl) which is an always-on,
>     production server. That URL exists exactly for the purposes
>     discussed here and is already in use by at least three
>     other production systems.
>    
>     At present, the reported time is local to (Pacific Daylight
>     Savings Time Zone) and synchronized every six hours to the
>     "atomic clock" at Argonne National Lab. I will entertain
>     any reasonable request such as moving to GMT or adding or
>     reformatting data.
>
> <request class="maybeReasonable"/>
>   Add xml markup, your own entry, then a GMT value that
> could be utilised by XSLT 2.0 for anyone to convert to their own
> local time?
>
> current-time() - 19:01:36.404Z  is an example I get...
> Though the number of decimal places is arbitrary, hence perhaps
> could be zero.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime is the fancy specification
> for full date and time if you wanted to go that far?
> Their example is
> 1999-05-31T13:20:00-05:00 showing GMT -5 hours.
>
> <time>
>   <local zone="-8:00">19:01:36.0</local>
>   <utc>19:01:36.404Z</utc>
> </time>
>
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>
> Any WG member improve on that?
>
> regards DaveP
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>    
>     FYI: The data at the URL is produced using Dave Rolsky's
>     Time::Local module for Perl (see:
>     http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Time-Local-1.10/lib/Time/Local.pm).
>    
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