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[CF-metadata] Temporal nitpicks.

From: Sean Arms <sarms>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 15:24:16 -0600

+1 for the "T" in the time string.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal <
bob.simons at noaa.gov> wrote:

> I vote to encourage the use of the T between date and time.
> * The T is the official method to connect the date and the time in the
> various ISO 8601 standards, notably the ISO 8601:2004 "extended" format
> String. As long as we are encouraging a specific format, let's encourage
> the official one, not the one which might be "most common".
> * The T serves an important function: it indicates that a time follows the
> date. Otherwise, it is harder for software (and humans) to know if the
> subsequent information is a time or some other information.
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Bob Simons
> IT Specialist
> Environmental Research Division
> NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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> Email: bob.simons at noaa.gov
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