Discuss format for date-time fields in mzQC about mzqc HOT 4 CLOSED

Nice catch! For automatic syntactic validation I'd say to follow the JSON requirements (so include "Z"). The specification document should be updated accordingly.

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Somewhat related the URI used in the format. Maybe we could add a small and clarifying section to the spec doc for that, too.
URIs and timezones are mundane things kept for granted but the RFCs hold some surprise. A convenience 'refresher' on the essential thing for each.
(https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986)

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Following our initial discussions here and off-line, I've drafted some change to the spec doc, to discuss something concrete next. The URIs did not get any extra text, I opted for simply linking the RFC at each occurrence of URI. That should be convenience enough.

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Nice catch! For automatic syntactic validation I'd say to follow the JSON requirements (so include "Z"). The specification document should be updated accordingly.

I'm 100% with you, but we should check (at least roughly) that all common implementations/parsers, which we are using can deal with the formatting required by the JSON schema definition.
It would be counter-productive IMHO to obey the schema definition, but fail in real world scenarios.

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