"One size fits all"? This isn't about haberdashery.
The point of a standard format is exactly that there needs to be a
single precise format. If you are going to use an Internet date/time
standard, then it ought to be same or at least an isomer (ie, iCalendar
date/time format).
Especially, when it comes to basic data types like date/time.
-- Frank
Perhaps, but the point I was trying to make isn't about the
W3C ignoring
IETF work or vice-versa. A "one size fits all" specification
isn't likely
to meet everyone's needs, and the situation with 2445 and XML
Schema is just
one example of a situation where the given size didn't fit
someone for some
reason. The point I was trying to make is that the
timestamps document
seems to provide a reasonable compromise between being too
restrictive and
too permissive.