GEMS11 — We suggest leaving the old time type (based on POSIX)

UTC Time as a new type Create a new time type that uses the UTC time format. This would allow for times that are human readable and that also support leap seconds. Unfortunately the current time type cannot be replaced because the XML schema for it wouldn't easily support this new format for time. We suggest leaving the old time type (based on POSIX) which we admit is useful under many circumstances.

Adopt utime as a new parameter type. Updates are to be made in the PIM and PSMs. This resolution allows for backward compatibility with GEMS 1.0 since existing implementations will not utilize utime parameter types.