TimeInterval

An time interval is meant to denote an interval of time whose begin and end is defined by Timestamp.

Data model

Definition of the `TimeInterval` element
Field	Type	Multiplicity	Description
start	Timestamp	1..1	begin of interval. REQUIRED.
end	Timestamp	1..1	end of interval. REQUIRED.

Example

The following message could be used to represent the interval from March 15, 2020, 1PM to March 25, 2020, 9PM.

timeInterval:
  start: "2020-03-15T13:00:00Z"
  end: "2020-03-25T09:00:00Z"

Explanations

start

The date and time of the start of the interval.

end

The date and time of the end of the interval.

Privacy concerns

In some cases it may be desirable to shift all specific dates in a phenopacket by the same random amount. For instance, we might shift all dates by 2 years. In this case the above interval element would be represented as follows

timeInterval:
  start: "2018-03-15T13:00:00Z"
  end: "2018-03-25T09:00:00Z"