[tdwg-content] practical details of recording a determination What is an Occurrence?

Mark Wilden mark at mwilden.com
Tue Oct 19 20:20:52 CEST 2010


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Pyle
<deepreef at 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
Web Applications Developer
Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics
California Academy of Sciences


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