On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <[email protected]> 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 -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected] _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
