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Overview
A Timed Data Structure is a means of conveying time-based information (that is, information with a time component). All TDSs that are associated with a Time Varying Information (TVI) are considered to be alternative "representations" of the same information (or "message") with the same relationship to time.
A Timed Data Structure (TDS) is a collection where each item in the collection consists of:
- A
Time Value(acountandtime_unit) - A
Data Object(a sequence of bytes)
Each Time Value represents a period of "continuous" time (measured in seconds) from the common zero-point of the Time Context used by the TDS – it locates the Data Object within this Time Context.
A Time Context may be used by many TDSs. Data Objects across all of these are considered "co-timed" / "synchronised" if their Time Values are equivalent.