Aleksandar,
I support the standard name proposal for datetime_iso8601. However, I
see several areas needing refinement, evidenced by today's messages.
Would you like to start a trac ticket for further discussion? If you
prefer, I can post my particular concerns on the CF main list.
--Dave
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Aleksandar Jelenak - NOAA Affiliate
<aleksandar.jelenak at noaa.gov> wrote:
> I fully support John Caron's proposal of having ISO 8601 datetime
> strings as another way for encoding time data. But I proposed a
> standard name so would like to return to that.
>
> From a few replies so far it seems that many interpret this standard
> name proposal as a fundamental change of the convention. I don't see
> it that way. My intention was to enhance the interoperability for such
> data by specifying a limited subset of ISO8601 datetime string
> formats. Note that having such variables does not break the convention
> as long as they are not coordinate variables.
>
> Can I have the final decision, please?
>
> -Aleksandar
Received on Tue Mar 19 2013 - 13:55:23 GMT
