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

[Richard Pyle]

That was my original rationale; but I'll go with whatever the consensus is.

Rich 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Wilden [mailto:mark at mwilden.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:21 AM
> To: Richard Pyle
> Cc: Steve Baskauf; tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org; 
> tdwg-bioblitz at googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] practical details of recording a 
> determination What is an Occurrence?
> 
> 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
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