[CF-metadata] Temporal nitpicks.

From: Armstrong, Edward M <Edward.M.Armstrong>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:04:30 +0000

Just making the time stamp more human readable is important so I too am in favor of a ?T? to separate the date and time !

From: CF-metadata <cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu>> on behalf of Bob Simons - NOAA Federal <bob.simons at noaa.gov<mailto:bob.simons at noaa.gov>>
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 2:14 PM
To: CF Metadata <cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu<mailto:cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu>>
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Temporal nitpicks.

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.

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