XTCE12 — Elevate annotation specifying time string formats to an attributes

The annotation below would be better served as an optional attribute with the specified format as the default. From a telemetry stantpd this would be interpreted as optional display info, and from an argument standpt the user input string format. "Used to contain an absolute time. Contains an absolute (to a known epoch) time. Use the [ISO 8601] extended format CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss where "CC" represents the century, "YY" the year, "MM" the month and "DD" the day, preceded by an optional leading "-" sign to indicate a negative number. If the sign is omitted, "+" is assumed. The letter "T" is the date/time separator and "hh", "mm", "ss" represent hour, minute and second respectively. Additional digits can be used to increase the precision of fractional seconds if desired i.e. the format ss.ss... with any number of digits after the decimal point is supported. "

Propose to defer this to another RTF or RFP

This seems like a reasonable idea, but perhaps not critical in the context of XTCE 1.2. Time display formats are implementation, locale, and program specific. Not sure there is a real problem here, but I agree there is ambiguity.