On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate
<dave.allured at noaa.gov> wrote:
> You are making a set of technical
> use specifications, with significant departures from the reference
> standard ISO 8601.
If we do anything with this -- PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE simply use the
ISO standard! I"ve a bit lost track of where folks are proposing to
deviate, but what I have seen ( a different default time zone) seems
to be a case of "my particular application currently uses this
standard, so I want CF to match that", which is a really bad idea.
If we really need to deviate, I'd say only do it by supporting a
subset of ISO (like requiring a TZ spec, for instance), but having the
exact same string mean something different in CF than ISO strikes me
as a really bad idea!
-Chris
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Christopher Barker, Ph.D.
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Received on Thu Mar 21 2013 - 11:17:58 GMT
