DALI 1.1 comments

[Arnold Rots]

The Y2k note implicitly disallows the Z in item 3.2.

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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Paul Harrison <
paul.harrison at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
>
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