[DALI] timestamp format

[Mark Taylor]

Can I suggest that mention of ISO8601 is not completely excised - 
since it clearly looks like ISO8601 people who did not have the
pleasure of participating in this discussion may wonder why it
doesn't mention that standard at all and what the difference is.

While I think that using FITS as the normative standard sounds
reasonable, a non-normative comment or footnote mentioning that
it's effectively ISO8601 without a Z, and with the meaning of
UTC (er... if that's what it is) would be useful for readers.

Mark

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Patrick Dowler wrote:

> 
> OK, it looks like the best solution is to change the references to FITS and
> STC and probably not mention ISO8601 at all for the timestamp format in DALI.
> 
> Thanks for the detailed info and discussion.
> 
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