dateTime formatStrings documentation #311
Description
The list of suggested date formats has an entry which is so out-of-the-ordinary that it should be reconsidered. This is not a controlled list of formats, only examples. The example of "WWW" for 3-digit month has confused several users. This text copied from eml-attribute.xsd, dateTime/formatString documentation:
Non-standard YYYY-WWW-DD 2002-OCT-14
Non-standard YYYYWWWDD 2002OCT14
I cannot find any record of "WWW" (or "www") referring to a 3-letter month. It may have been intended to be MMM (which Java, and C++, and some database exports seem to recognize as a '3-character string for month'.
If someone has a reference for the "WWW", please add it to this issue. If not, I suggest we edit the documentation to
Non-standard YYYY-MMM-DD 2002-OCT-14
Non-standard YYYYMMMDD 2002OCT14