Title: Draft Text for resolution of 11179-3 Ballot comment #116 (CAN-P03-181)

Requirement

In 11179-3, there are several terms and definitions relating to “date”. There is a need for a standard default for referencing one of the multiple temporal schemas currently for referencing dates and times.

Editing Committee Resolution from Victoria:

Resolved to add a general statement on Date References.

Proposed Solution

Insert the following sub-clause after the existing sub-clause 4.3.

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4.4 Date References

In this standard, dates are important attributes of an Administration Record and of operations of a registry. There are many different temporal schemata, including calendars. {See ISO 19108:2002} For the purpose of this standard, “date” refers to Gregorian calendar date {See ISO 8601:2000} and the associated default representation is YYYY-MM-DD (i.e. Year-Month-Day). For example, 12 October, 2001 if referenced in numeric form should be 2001-10-12 and not as, for example 12-10-2001 (which might be confused with 10 December, 2001).

Users needing to reference and/or use a temporal schema other than the Gregorian calendar should specify the temporal schema used (e.g. GPS time referencing) utilizing ISO 19108:2002.

For the present, the specification of time in addition to date should be consider a user extension to this standard.

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Add ISO 19108:2002 to the Normative References.