| Re: Daylight saving time [message #568 is a reply to message #567] |
Mon, 05 April 2004 14:15   |
Joachim.Rubröder
Messages: 33
Registered: September 2004
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Hello,
about daylight saving times:
There are no trains in europe, crossing a border with one country saving
daylight and the other one not. All countries (except island) change
time the same night. In practice, there are no special timetables for
these two nights - the trains are one hour late in spring and wait one
hour in automn.
time zones:
This Problem is also a bit hypothetical. Very few railways have to deal
with different time zones. I think russia is planing everything in
Moscow-time and finland and most others use local times together with a
short remark in their published timetables. But if you like to do it
more than correct and with railML, you will be able to write every
german time like "08:00+01:00" and refer it to GMT.
I dont't think, there is the need for special paragraphs, just for this
two cases, but the question appeared several times before, so maybe
there is the need to metion them in a short sentence.
Greetings from Zurich,
Joachim Rubröder
SMA und Partner AG
Nils Poldrack schrieb:
> Hello Mr Rubroeder,
>
> because you are responsible developing the timetable schema I have a
> special question to you. (I'm just writing an "Instruction how to build
> a railML schema".)
> Is it necessary to write a separat paragraph about daylight saving time?
> Or is this feature not used in timetables?
>
> And what about time zone? You told about implicitly coded time zone in
> your presentation on the last railML meeting on 2004-04-02. So I will
> not write a paragraph dealing with time zones.
>
> Thank you for your answer and opinion
>
> Nils Poldrack
> Fraunhofer IVI Dresden
>
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