I was going by the definitions at
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#eventDate and
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm#eventTime
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.
Steve
Mark Wilden wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Pyle
<deepreef@bishopmuseum.org> wrote:
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.
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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