Without the ?T' the ISO compliance of the time stamp is in a gray area.
According to the wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
"It is permitted to omit the 'T' character by mutual agreement?
But then I would assume:
<date>T<time> turns into <date><time>
(no space between date and time, exceedingly less human readable)
On 9/22/16, 3:43 PM, "CF-metadata on behalf of Seth McGinnis"
<cf-metadata-bounces at cgd.ucar.edu on behalf of mcginnis at ucar.edu> wrote:
>I have to disagree. Personally, I find the T a lot less readable than
>separating them with a space.
>
>On 9/22/16 4:04 PM, Armstrong, Edward M (398G) wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Bob Simons
>> IT Specialist
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