[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 594504] Need a GType of "Date AND Time AND Timezone"

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594504


Sebastian Dröge <slomo> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Sebastian Dröge <slomo at circular-chaos.org> 2009-09-08 14:47:26 UTC ---
For defining how we store this in a GValue please keep in mind, that we have
2*64 bits that can be filled. But we should nonetheless use BCD because it
wastes space for nothing (AFAIK it's only useful if you want to directly show
it on those 7 element LED displays).

I guess with the 2*64 bits we can even get nanoseconds resolution.


Now the question is how we represent all those parts.

Date: Some kind of MJD or YYYY-MM-DD format or +-days since some date? Or
multiple possible formats like in S12M, which are selected by a single bit?
Time: Nano/Micro/Milliseconds from start of day? Or all parts separate, i.e.
HH:MM:SS.X?
Timezone: Probably something like the Timezone representation in S309M, i.e. an
enumeration for the 48 possible timezones.

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