[CF-metadata] New standard name: datetime_iso8601

From: Aleksandar Jelenak - NOAA Affiliate <aleksandar.jelenak>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:00:46 -0500

Dear All:

Here's the modified proposal for the datetime_iso8601 standard name:

standard_name: datetime_iso8601

Units: N/A

String representing date-time information according to the ISO
8601:2004(E) standard. Variables with this standard name cannot serve
as coordinate variables. Date-time information is in the Gregorian
calendar. For dates preceding the Gregorian calendar the date-time
information is in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. Possible date-time
string forms are:

<datetime> = <date> "T" <time> <timezone> ;

<date> = YYYY "-" MM "-" DD | YYYY "-" DDD ;

<time> = hh | hh ":" mm | hh ":" mm ":" ss | hh ":" mm ":" ss "." S
      | hh ":" mm ":" ss "," S ;

<timezone> = "" | "Z" | "+" hh | "+" hh ":" mm | "-" hh | "-" hh ":" mm

Where:

* "YYYY" is a four-digit year (0000-9999).

* "MM" is a two-digit month of the year (01-12).

* "DD" is a two-digit day of the month (01-31).

* "DDD" is a three-digit ordinal day of the year (001-366).

* "hh" is a two-digit hour (00-23).

* "mm" is a two-digit minute (00-59)

* "ss" is a two-digit second (00-59).

* "S" is one or more digits representing a decimal fraction of the
 second.

* The value of any designator when not specified is zero.

* If <timezone> is ommitted the default value is "Z".


       -Aleksandar
Received on Fri Jan 11 2013 - 10:00:46 GMT