[eml-dev] [Bug 5617] date time format strings need a system

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5617

--- Comment #2 from Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> 2012-07-05 09:39:20 PDT ---
The formatString uses the ISO8601 formatting codes.  This is in keeping with
EML's recommendation that people use ISO8601 compliant dates whenever possible.
 Supporting multiple different date formatting coding systems just complicates
things for consumers, as they then have to be able to do m*n conversions of
format strings.  As it stands now, we only need 1*n conversions, because they
would all get mapped to ISO8601 format strings.  So, any software that consumes
format strings has to translate from ISO8601 strings to their desired format,
e.g., postgresql in your example.  Moving to a system where EML allowed
multiple types of formatting strings would certainly make it harder for
application developers to fully support all of the legal values that might be
found in a EML document from this modified schema.  I think it is better to
leave it as is with a single format string approach (ISO8601).

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