#31 event

[Joseph White]

This term is in the FuGO, but has no definition. Since
I used it in several places to define terms for time,
I'm going to take a crack at defining it:

def: a phenomenon that occurs at a point in time.

So an event should have a time_stamp.

This came from
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:qZ8B_LsFc4oJ:ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/time-standard.pdf+time+ontology&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=10
in which the duration of an event is considered nil. A
'situation' is described as 'a phenomenon that occurs
during a period of time.'

Do we also need to add 'situation'?

Joe White

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could "situation" either captured in process or possibly
time interval (of the situation's existance).

is time_stamp sufficiently unanchored in clock time to
permit relative time for an event (e.g. 1 hour after
treatment rather than 10:00 AM on tuesday)?

[Joseph White]

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I don't know that we actually need 'situation', or whether
we already have a synonym for it. The reason I brought it
up was to distinguish between a point in time and a
time_interval.

Regarding 'time_stamp': I think the definition is clear--a
time_stamp has a date and a time. So time_stamp IS anchored
on time. For relative references to time, use time_reference.

Lastly, if you are going to continue to use the term 'clock
time', can submit a definition, or make it a synonym to
another term? This term is not clear to me.