Those definitions in the DwC documetation are correct. Note that they are not implementation-specific. The caution here is that an ISO 8601 date time is much more expressive than an xs:datetime (a specific implementation), for example.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Steve Baskauf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu">steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I was going by the definitions at
<a href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#eventDate" target="_blank">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#eventDate</a> and
<a href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#eventTime" target="_blank">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#eventTime</a><br>
Going by these definitions, eventDate is an ISO 8601 encoded thing that
can include both date and time (or only date at a lower resolution).
eventTime appears to only refer to the time (at least based on the
examples). If we are going to call these things dwc:eventDate and
dwc:eventTime we have to go with the way they are defined in the Darwin
Core standard.<br><font color="#888888">
Steve</font><div class="im"><br>
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Mark Wilden wrote:
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<pre>On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Pyle
<a href="mailto:deepreef@bishopmuseum.org" target="_blank"><deepreef@bishopmuseum.org></a> wrote:
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<pre>Yeah, I originally had it as eventDate, but then switched to eventTime. If
Date can include time (and Time is assumed not to include date), then using
eventDate is fine.
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<pre>I would recommend using eventTime for a date + time-of-day. "Time" is
more general than "date." This is the usage in the Ruby world.
///ark
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California Academy of Sciences
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