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Hi,<br>
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I had to tag several parking lots closed on times such as <b>Fr
14:00-22:00</b> when the market took place there.<br>
I raised a convoluted discussion: everyone had a different opinion
about that tagging, plus strange comments (*).<br>
After more than 10 hours spent in research and collaboration, I had
to conclude with the inability of the <a
href="http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Opening_hours">Key:Opening_hours</a>
specification to express that timing, or explain it, at least
simply.<br>
<br>
I finally used a vary straightforward and clear:<br>
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<b>closing-hours=Fr 14:00-22:00</b><br>
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and I suggest that you use it too and that you add that key to the
specification.<br>
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It can be clearly explained, once won't hurt, as follows:<br>
As often funnily put, <i><b>closing-hours</b></i> is the same as <i><b>opening-hours</b></i>
except that it is exactly the opposite :-)<br>
Seriously: use <i><b>closing-hours</b></i> with the same rules as <b>opening-hours</b>
and invert the result: opening time becomes closing time and
conversely.<br>
It couldn't be more simple, obvious and understandable. Quite the
opposite of that story.<br>
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May this be helpful,<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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(*) I read very strange statements such as:<br>
"off" must not be defined, it must be grasped.<br>
"off" is not used.<br>
"off" is used, but not like that.<br>
xxx, must not be defined because it has been used for a long time.<br>
it's wrong.<br>
it's wrong.<br>
... (without saying what's right)<br>
etc, etc, etc...<br>
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In face of such chaos, I tried to help by putting the rules in a
clear diagram so that the incongruities would stand out and be
corrected, and the reactions were twofold:<br>
- yeah, finally a simple and understandable explanation<br>
- it's wrong, but again without saying more, less making corrections<br>
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