Re: human language oriented datetime standard

Sorry, but...what problem are you trying to solve ?

The reason for ISO 8606 standards in the first place...to improve
interoperability and avoid confusion between a human and a human, or a
machine and a human, or all.

Schema.org already supports simple TEXT on any property, regardless if it
is stated or not, and does not prevent you from expressing as much or as
little as you like about a Date.

Your scenario seems like those of others before you, where you could have
your server code or javascript take a DATE from your database or backend
system and just convert that to a TEXT type and populate it.

Schema.org allows you to say, if you want:

"doorTime": "tomorrow"

instead of

"doorTime": "2018-06-30T15:38:51Z"

You are also not prevented from providing BOTH forms, when and where you
need to provide Machines and Humans what they need for understanding.

The reason to use a Machine Readable standard rather than Human Readable
no-standard, is to improve understanding by the rest of the world who could
know exactly when your "tomorrow" is.

-Thad

Received on Saturday, 30 June 2018 17:29:30 UTC