sexagesimal

[Alberto Conti]

On Sep 16, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Steve Allen wrote:

>
> The FITS world constrained DATExxxx strings to a much tighter
> subset of the ISO specification.  Will there really be much
> contention if IVOA demands a similarly restricted set?

The adoption of a well known ISO standard or specification seems the  
most appropriate thing to do, instead of coming up with yet another  
IVOA recommendation that is just a poor compromise.

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