[iaufwg] IAUFWG review of the new draft FITS Standard

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Mon Mar 17 16:16:52 EDT 2008


On Mon 2008-03-17T21:07:44 +0100, Andreas Wicenec hath writ:
> 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

The FITS Y2K agreement is already more restrictive, with the exception
that, unlike W3C, our version allows leap seconds.

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