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The 360Giving data standard for UK philanthropic giving
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Make the time component of some datetimes intentionally meaningless #266

Closed morchickit closed 5 years ago

morchickit commented 5 years ago

Add note about the significance of Time in Date Awarded and Transaction date.

morchickit commented 5 years ago

also @robredpath - this is what you suggested here - https://github.com/ThreeSixtyGiving/grantnav/issues/466 "We update the standard to make it explicit that the time component of dates is meaningless and can be dropped by consuming applications. This wouldn't change the schema, just the standard docs (docs + schema = standard). Once the standard permits consuming applications to drop the time component, we can then update GrantNav to do exactly that in the CSV download, and add an appropriate explanatory note to the CSV download. This would be a MINOR change, which would require community consultation and a bump to 1.1

I don't think the documentation for consumer should make them (MUST) do something about it. It's only guidance since unlike publishers, we can't do a quality check to all consumers, and we can not enforce them to comply. We need to be realistic in our expectations here.

morchickit commented 5 years ago

@robredpath - Can you approve that I addressed the changes?