IVOA and ADASS?

[Arnold Rots]

(2) Time is already properly defined in WhereWhen; why deviate from
    that standard?

  - Arnold

Roy Williams wrote:
> 
> Joshua Bloom wrote:
> >  I'd really like to see a BoF on Timeseries. 
> 
> Josh --
> 
> Can I wave the flag of simplicity?
> 
> (1) Any chance we can reduce the scope in the hopes of simplicity and 
> efficiency? What I mean is to call it specifically "Light Curve" in 
> place of the general "Time Series". The former we understand well 
> (magnitudes and Janskys), but the latter could easily get out of 
> control, and start to include time series of tensorial fiber bundle 
> functors and things like that.
> 
> (2) On the matter of "time", can we also reduce scope? Can we agree on a 
> single system like Julian Day? If we need to generalize to Ganymedian 
> siderial time, then we are lost. (IMHO).
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> California Institute of Technology
> 626 395 3670
> 
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