<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Hello Clarin developpers,<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>I wonder why CLARIN does not strongly recommend the standard ISO 8601 for date and time<br/></div><div>(including time ranges).<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>There is an FAQ about recommended standards here http://www.clarin.eu/faq/3060<br/></div><div>but it does not mention ISO 8601 at all (except you call the recommendation of TimeML</div><div>a citation ...).<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Not having a standard for date and time already causes problems, see<br/></div><div>http://trac.clarin.eu/ticket/36 where the question is raised how to deal with non-standard<br/></div><div>date formats.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>May I ask to promote ISO 8601 to a recommended CLARIN standard?<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>Greetings from Saarbrücken,<br/></div><div>Jörg Knappen<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>P.S. More on ISO 8601 can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>P.P.S. We follow the recommendations of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and provide <br/></div><div>date ranges in the <coverage> element in our DC metadata and the CMDI metadata derived thereof.<br/></div></div></body></html>