>You seem to assume that "local" is defined and does not change over time. On the contrary, what I'm saying is that we need to be able to store date/time speci

>You seem to assume that "local" is defined and does not change over time. On the contrary, what I'm saying is that we need to be able to store date/time specifications that do not (yet) identify a point in time. Of course we also need to be able to store actual points in time. "Local" is a pretty vague term. I can refer to a specific place or to an as yet unknown place.