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Need to clean up startTime vs startDate #524

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vholland opened this issue May 21, 2015 · 3 comments
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Need to clean up startTime vs startDate #524

vholland opened this issue May 21, 2015 · 3 comments
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dates times and events Describing times, dates and events (and their relationships) schema.org vocab General top level tag for issues on the vocabulary type:cleanup + clarity Addresses wording fixes, ambiguities, confusion, bad examples etc

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The description for http://schema.org/startTime says:

Note that Event uses startDate/endDate instead of startTime/endTime, even when describing dates with times. This situation may be clarified in future revisions.

The phrase "start time" makes more sense in certain contexts than "start date", but http://schema.org/startDate is more heavily used. Is there any reason not to combine to one property?
@danbri danbri added schema.org vocab General top level tag for issues on the vocabulary type:cleanup + clarity Addresses wording fixes, ambiguities, confusion, bad examples etc labels May 21, 2015
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danbri commented May 21, 2015

I think last time we discussed this we hadn't got any notion of 'supersededBy' or suchlike... so were more cautious about changes.

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twamarc commented May 22, 2015

I have been using startDate/endDate for events in general where no time is expected; and startTime/endTime where date and time is expected. I think it makes sens to keep both.

Of course if we accept that startDate/endDate can also have date and Time as object then startTime/endTime becomes obsolete.

@danbri danbri added the dates times and events Describing times, dates and events (and their relationships) label May 27, 2015
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letmaik added a commit to ec-melodies/wp02-dcat that referenced this issue Oct 27, 2015
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change schema:startDate/endDate to xsd:dateTime (from xsd:date)
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http://schema.org/startDate (see the example at bottom; the range is wrongly described as "Date" only)
schemaorg/schemaorg#524
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Wee have done this in dribs and drabs. Closing in favor of opening a more targeted proposal.

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