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A Date (optionally with time, scalar type) Title of this Item
Date_Value Name of this Item
This item represents a particular date (and time). It is a relatively free-form field, allowingg a mix of letters, numbers, and punctuation to allow easily human-readable dates to be entered. The date/time can be as accurate as the information you have allows. Depending on the context, it could be as general as a single year or even a century, or it could be a date and time down to the second: "March 24, 2010 at 12:15:22pm (Pacific)". But it cannot be ambiguous. For example, if you spell out the month when entering a birth date, then both "4 January 1955" and "Jan 4, 1955" are acceptable. However, you should not type something like "1/4/55" because of both the month/day ambiguity (difference between U.S. and European common ordering) and because of the century ambiguity (probably 1955, but what if it was 1855?). Description of this Item
