Let T be a T -set, i.e., a finite set of nonnegative integers satisfying 0 ∈ T , and G be a graph. In the paper we study relations between the T -edge spans esp T (G) and esp d⊙T (G), where d is a positive integer andis an integer that depends on T and G. Next we focus on the case T = {0} and show that esp d⊙{0} (G) = ⌈d(χ c (G) − 1)⌉, where χ c (G) is the circular chromatic number of G. This result allows us to formulate several interesting conclusions that include a new formula for the circular chromatic number χ c (G) = 1 + inf esp d⊙{0} (G)/d : d ≥ 1 2 R. Janczewski, A.M. Trzaskowska and K. Turowski and a proof that the formula for the T -edge span of powers of cycles, stated as conjecture in [Y. Zhao, W. He and R. Cao, The edge span of T -coloring on graph C d n , Appl. Math. Lett. 19 (2006) 647-651], is true.