eventTime not following the standard

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Darwin Core recommendations for biologging data

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eventTime not following the standard #21

Closed albenson-usgs closed 4 years ago

albenson-usgs commented 4 years ago

eventTime (https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:eventTime) doesn't look to be following ISO 8601:2004(E)

msweetlove commented 4 years ago

I managed to change all event times it to hh:mm:ss in the upcoming version of the data conform ISO 8601. But I think for the timezones required by ISO 8601:2004(E), we need to be pragmatic in the sense that figuring this out based on geographic coordinates for millions of records is computationally unfeasible.

pieterprovoost commented 4 years ago

What does eventTime currently hold? Is it local time at the release location? Then maybe a conversion to UTC (HH:MMZ) is feasible?

msweetlove commented 4 years ago

Anton informed me that all times are UTC, so the format is now HH:MM:SSZ (with timezone stamp)