[tap-l] TAP Datetime discussion

[Michael G Schwern]

Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # 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?

It's now OPTIONAL for diagnostics.  "MAY"


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