[tap-l] TAP Datetime discussion

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Michael G Schwern
# on Friday 07 September 2007 02:22 pm:

>> That's fine if the recommendation pertains to #2 only in terms of
>> making dates and times consistently readable for the user.  But, as
>> far as parsing is concerned, a datetime stored in an arbitrary key
>> is only a string unless it is identified.  If the #2 case intends to
>> be more ambitious
>
>It doesn't, not at this time.  It's just establishing a suggestion for
> a particularly common, contentious formatting issue.  Since we need
> to do it for the metadata information anyway, might as well throw it
> out there.

Ok, so this is a REQUIREment for TAP metadata(#1) and a RECOMMENDation 
for usage in diagnostics(#2).  Right?

--Eric
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