Re: Date format for Dubiln Core

In your issues list, you say:

 > Are times necessary? The purpose of the draft is to enable data
 > recorde using this profile to state conformance to this specification.
 > Best practice is to use a more flexible method of recording dates,
 > such as Date Time Format [DTF], so unless there are existing uses of
 > the profile to record date/times they are not necessary. Disallowing
 > Time would mean no need for timezones, which makes things simpler.

Why would a DATE without time not need a timezone?


Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have written a draft that would like to grow up into a specification 
> of  the profle of ISO-8601 which removes punctuation for dates, giving 
> things  like 20060103 or (ergh!) 79. The primary purpose is to document 
> that  format for use in Dublin Core, since there is existing data which 
> uses it,  and saying something is ISO-8601-conformant is not much 
> stricter than  saying it uses ASCII characters to record a date...
> 
> It's a bit tangential to the general work here, but might be of 
> interest.  Among other things I suggest using an RDF datatype, even 
> though it is not  clear how to define an automagcally processable one 
> yet, where dates are  used in RDF.
> 
> It's at http://people.opera.com/charlesm/2006/shortdate/ - dated 30  
> December, and I plan to publish a new draft about 15 jan with at least  
> spelling mistakes and the unfinished example fixed, a clarification of  
> what is normative or not, and similar editorial changes. Other 
> suggestions  for editorial or substnative changes are welcome...
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chaals
> 

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