The w:date attribute is (correctly) shown in ISO 8601 format. This attribute is, therefore, inconsistent with the w:fullDate attribute defined in 2.5.2.8. Inconsistent use of value types in attributes that serve similar purposes will only serve to confuse developers and will inherently lead to errors in coding of applications.

Adopt a consistent ISO 8601 date format for all date representation

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment GB-0214 (Modified: 2007-11-29) Agreed. The same error also occurs in the next subclause, §2.5.2.8. The following changes will be made in Part 4, §2.5.2.7, page 545, in the attribute table: Attributes Description fullDate (Last Known Date in XML Schema DateTime Format) Specifies the full date and time last entered into the parent structured document tag using the standard XML Schema DateTime syntax. [Note: This cache is used because the date display mask stored on the dateFormat element (§2.5.2.8) may not contain all of the information about the date, which may be needed if the date display mask is later changed. end note] If this attribute is specified, then the current fullDate attribute shall be used to populate the run content of the parent structured document tag by filtering it through the date display mask specified in the dateFormat element, if one is present. If this attribute is omitted, then the current display text shall be maintained when the document is displayed. [Example: Consider the following structured document tag properties: <w:sdtPr> ... <w:date w:fullDate=" 01-01-2006 2006-01-01 T05:30:00Z"> ... </w:date> </w:sdtPr> The full XML Schema DateTime format for the current structured document tag is specified via the fullDate attribute value as 01-01-2006 2006-01-01 T05:30:00Z . end example] The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_DateTime simple type (§2.18.15). The following changes will be made in Part 4, §2.5.2.8, page 546, lines 5­14: [Example: Consider the following structured document tag properties: <w:sdtPr> <w:date w:fullDate=" 01-01-2006 2006-01-01 T06:30:00Z"> <w:dateFormat w:val="MM-YYYY"/> </w:date> </w:sdtPr> The full XML Schema DateTime format for the current structured document tag is specified via the fullDate attribute value as 01-01-2006 2006-01-01 T06:30:00Z , and the date display mask is MM-YYYY , therefore the resulting date displayed in the document shall be 01-2006 (the month and long year from the full date value, respectively). end example] Similar Comments: GB-0202 ,