Instant

Pattern

This class has been associated with the following pattern:

Pattern:Time Pattern

Subclass Of

Time:Instant

Description

An English description of the definition (what distinguishes this sense of the term?).

An Instant represents an instant in time (i.e., a moment; a temporal entity without any duration). Core properties are: o inXSDDateTimeStamp: specifies the date and time that can be used to identify the time instance, in the xsd:dateTimeStamp format.

Class Diagram Description

The diagram below illustrates the use of the Time Pattern to capture time instant and interval objects. Intervals can be associated with intervals according to various properties such as hasBeginning, hasEnd, and inside. Data properties, such as inXSDDateTimeStamp can be used to identify the data values associated with a particular object.

Required by Use Case(s)

(why is this specialized definition needed?)

CDM References

What other classes or properties reference this term?

• TemporalEntity ‎ (← links)
• Interval ‎ (← links)
• Pattern:Time Pattern ‎ (← links)

Interface Specification References

This class has been associated with the following interface specification items:

Sources

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Status

Pending Approval

Annotations

Annotation	Value

Manchester Syntax Specification

Property	Restriction	Value
InXSDDateTimeStamp	only	xsd:dateTimeStamp

Supplementary Figures

Figure	Caption
	Example use of the Time Pattern.