[iaufwg] IAUFWG review of the new draft FITS Standard

[Andreas Wicenec]

Dear all,

in addition to my comments in the previous e-mail I would like to  
express my support
for Arnold's suggestion, but just in section 4 rather than 5 (I'm  
actually not sure whether
Arnold's suggestion was meant to go into section 5?). That means to  
add a subsection to
the Value section which would define the structure and format of date- 
time values in
keyword records according to a *subset* of ISO-8601. Certainly not  
the full standard,
because essentially this standard is allowing just about anything. I  
would suggest
to simply follow the W3C note http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

Regards,
Andreas Wicenec


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Dr. Andreas J. Wicenec
Archive Scientist
European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2
85748 Garching
Germany
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On 17.03.2008, at 18:19, William Pence wrote:

>
> 1.  Arnold Rots suggested that it might be useful to add ISO-8601
> data-time to the recognized data types (presumably in Chapter 5 of the
> latest draft).   In response, 3 of you (Shaw, Forveille, and Gabriel)
> felt that while this was perhaps worthy of further discussion, it is
> rather late in the process to make this change to the current  
> draft, so
> it may be better to defer this to the next revision of the Standard
> (whenever that might be).   Do the rest of you agree to defer this
> suggestion for now?
>