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Force storage of dates in ISO 8601 Format #124

Open torrin47 opened 3 years ago

torrin47 commented 3 years ago

It would be best if Esri could fix this issue on their side, but might be something that EME for Pro could resolve. When editing metadata in Pro, dates seem to be saved in the OS default syntax (usually MM/DD/YYYY) even if you select from the calendar widget or type in another syntax. But that makes for invalid ISO 19115 metadata, which requires dates to be stored in ISO 8601 syntax, and when you upload a document to ArcGIS Online with non ISO 8601 dates, they fail validation. ISO 8601 is the standard, if Esri wants to display dates in a different flavor per the OS settings, that's fine, but under the hood they should always be stored in the standard format.

torrin47 commented 1 year ago

Starting to consider this a non-issue - in additional testing Esri does appear to be storing dates in ISO format and using OS default for display. Going to put back into icebox until we find a counter-example.