VOEvent 20110215 notes

[Steve Allen]

On Thu 2011-03-17T16:21:08 -0700, Bob Denny hath writ:
> > Sect 3.2.3: Are you accepting _all_ of ISO-8601?  I hope not.  The W3C ISO-8601 profile might be better <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime.html>, aka W3CDTF.  Or even something more restricted than that.
>
> I would strongly suggest we explicitly adopt the date/time format as understood
> by XML (type="xs:dateTime"). This is indeed a sub-set of ISO-8601. Straying from
> this would preclude machine parsing of dates within an XML code/object-model
> binding.

The XML dateTime denies the existence of leap seconds, so if any
timestamp for an event happens to coincide with one that will not
allow it to be legally expressed.

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