duration

duration

Duration

The interval of time between two, typically related, events.

This is the XML "duration" data type.

The type xsd:duration represents a duration of time expressed as a number of years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. The format of xsd:duration is PnYnMnDTnHnMnS, where P is a literal value that starts the expression, nY is the number of years followed by a literal Y, nM is the number of months followed by a literal M, nD is the number of days followed by a literal D, T is a literal value that separates the date and time, nH is the number of hours followed by a literal H, nM is the number of minutes followed by a literal M, and nS is the number of seconds followed by a literal S. The following rules apply to xsd:duration values:

• Any of these numbers and corresponding designators may be absent if they are equal to 0, but at least one number and designator must appear.

• The numbers may be any unsigned integer, with the exception of the number of seconds, which may be an unsigned decimal number.

• If a decimal point appears in the number of seconds, there must be at least one digit after the decimal point.

• A minus sign may appear before the P to specify a negative duration.

• If no time items (hour, minute, second) are present, the letter T must not appear.

Examples:

• "P2Y6M5DT12H35M30S": 2 years, 6 months, 5 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes, 30 seconds

• "PT20M": 20 minutes

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xs:duration

TM_Duration class based on the ISO 19108 – Geographic Information — Temporal Schema

Duration (A duration is the specification of a length of time without a fixed start or end time, expressed in Gregorian calendar time units (Year, Month, Week, or Day) and Hours, Minutes or Seconds.)

is defined as Business Data Type and can be associated to an object like “Passenger Journey” that include duration in the attribute.