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Dear @JanEmde,

BT-36 is of type duration. SDK-2 changes the way we deal with durations which are in fact a specific type of measure. The problem in EFX-1 is that it would treat any measure field as duration. But that was not accurate. There may be other fields of type measure like distances or weights.

The problem with durations that EFX-2 tries to solve is that unlike other measure type fields, durations have the unit embedded in the value. For example the value P1W means one week. Unlike durations for every other kind of measure like distances we keep two separate fields to store the measure: the standard field that holds the numeric value and an additional attribute field @unitCode tha…

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This discussion was converted from issue #1386 on July 17, 2026 08:16.