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Compilation of information and code bases related to open-source trackers for C. elegans
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Age should be a typical quantity with typical units #39

Closed Ichoran closed 8 years ago

Ichoran commented 8 years ago

The age field of metadata is its own special thing, with ages given in a custom time-like format (roughly based on ISO-8601, but not their duration format). Adding an extra way to parse things is unnecessarily complicated. Age has units of time. It should be specified in units block and otherwise not given special treatment (since other things with units of time do not get special treatment).

Ichoran commented 8 years ago

Resolved by https://github.com/openworm/tracker-commons/pull/40 (spec and Scala only, though Julia implementation is already written to be this way).