DALI 1.1 comments

[Paul Harrison]

> On 2016-05 -10, at 20:42, Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue 2016-05-10T19:11:09 +0000, Paul Harrison hath writ:
>>> FITS forbids the use of Z, for good reasons.
>> 
>> Then FITS should not even be mentioning ISO-8601 as not having the Z
>> in ISO-8601 means that the date time string should be interpreted as a
>> local time.
> 
> The FITS standard does not mention ISO 8601.

well precisely - but this http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/year2000.html is the offender - which actually says nothing about ‘forbidding’ Z indeed does not mention timezones - that language first appears in Rots et al. Representations of time coordinates in FITS A&A 2015 as far as I can tell.

Paul.