I think it's fairly well agreed we use (or default to) ISO8601 ?
Do we allow "naked" dates (no time component) ?
Do we go with hyphens as per HTML 4.0, e.g.
1994-11-05T13:15:30Z
1994-11-05T08:15:30-05:00
or dots as per PICS ,e.g.
1994.11.05T08:15-0500
or almost everything, as I gather ISO8601 allows ...
Do we allow Z for UTC (as HTML), or require +0000 as PICS ?
Do we require seconds (as HTML) or disallow (as PICS) or not care ?
.. for DC.date, DC.date.whatever, DC.coverage.t, DC.coverage.t.min ...
( I've been playing with Gnu "date" on my machine .. it's almost
happy with ISO8601 - it likes "1994-11-05", "08:15:30",
"1994-11-05 08:15:30Z" but unfortunately not
"1994-11-05T08:15:30-05:00" .... it also understands odd things like
"yesterday" and "1 am last tuesday". I can generate valid ISO8601
with "date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%TZ".)
Andrew Daviel
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