Author Name: Margaret O'Brien (Margaret O'Brien)
Original Redmine Issue: 5617, https://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/issues/5617
Original Date: 2012-06-05
Original Assignee: Matt Jones

EML has a formatString element that takes text strings, and the spec give several examples. Translating dates would be much easier if the system which specified the format was included.

This data: 01May2007

The spec example suggests DDWWWYYYY
which is specified by the system [unknown]

Another representation of this date is

DDMonYYYY

which can be read directly by postgresql. So using something like this:
DDMonYYYY

would be more informative and make interpretation easier for code like the DML.

example doc using this date format: knb-lter-sbc.61.1