- From: Thad Guidry <thadguidry@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:28:52 -0500
- To: nielsl <nielsl@xs4all.nl>
- Cc: public-schemaorg@w3.org
Received on Saturday, 30 June 2018 17:29:30 UTC
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