EventDate parsing should handle date ranges as per DarwinCore

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Reporter: omeyn
Type: Bug
Summary: EventDate parsing should handle date ranges as per DarwinCore
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-07-08 15:05:52.928
Updated: 2015-08-25 11:10:05.922
        
Description: As per Dimitri Brosens via email:

In Darwin Core the term eventdate is described like this:

Examples: "1963-03-08T14:07-0600" is 8 Mar 1963 2:07pm in the time zone six hours earlier than UTC, "2009-02-20T08:40Z" is 20 Feb 2009 8:40am UTC, "1809-02-12" is 12 Feb 1809, "1906-06" is Jun 1906, "1971" is just that year, "2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/2008-05-11T15:30:00Z" is the interval between 1 Mar 2007 1pm UTC and 11 May 2008 3:30pm UTC, "2007-11-13/15 is the interval between 13 Nov 2007 and 15 Nov 2007. For discussion see http://code.google.com/p/darwincore/wiki/Event

In, by example our VIS dataset we provide our eventdate  like this: 2006-09-11/2006-09-11

Why is this not interpret by GBIF? We get Date N/A on the portal, the verbatim record, off course, gives us the correct info back.]]>
    

Author: kbraak@gbif.org
Created: 2014-11-20 10:58:11.333
Updated: 2014-11-20 10:58:11.333
        
Nicholas in PF-1840 suggests:

"Will you also support date ranges starting and ending on the same day (then interpreting them as a single date) ? That would be easier to publish for datasets including both "real date ranges" on some records, and "identical start/end" on some others ?"