Re: xsd:dateTime vs. RFC 3339

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Norman Walsh wrote:
> The 05 draft of the Atom format says:
>
> I know we're writing an IETF document, but I think there's going to be
> a lot of off-the-shelf XML software that understands xsd:dateTimes and
> I think it would be a lot better if we defined Date Constructs in
> terms of W3C XML Schema Part 2 than RFC 3339.
>
> I propose that we change the spec to do so.

I agree. I was just writing a protocol implementation in Ruby On Rails 
(CRUDs very fast, btw). When I got to the part on date formats, I used 
xsd:dateTime code that was already done, figuring that's what everyone 
else will do.

Robert Sayre