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 âTâ to separate the date and time ! > > From: CF-metadata <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Bob Simons - > NOAA Federal <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 2:14 PM > To: CF Metadata <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > 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 > Environmental Research Division > NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center > 99 Pacific St., Suite 255A (New!) > Monterey, CA 93940 (New!) > Phone: (831)333-9878 (New!) > Fax: (831)648-8440 > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > The contents of this message are mine personally and > do not necessarily reflect any position of the > Government or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. > <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< > > > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata > _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
