[iaufwg] IAUFWG review of the new draft FITS Standard

Arnold Rots arots at head.cfa.harvard.edu
Mon Mar 17 19:25:38 EDT 2008


I meant as a datatype, allowed in tables (rather than faking it as a string).
And, yes, ISO 8601 as restricted by the Y2K agreement.

  - Arnold

Steve Allen wrote:
> On Mon 2008-03-17T21:24:17 +0100, Andreas Wicenec hath writ:
> > Just saw your latest e-mail: Since we do have this Y2K agreement (I
> > forgot about this),
> > why shouldn't we put it into the standard?
> 
> The reference to ISO is is implicit in the requirements of 4.4.2.1,
> but only explicit in the body of ref 10.
> 
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