18. I'm planning to implement the metadata standard using a data base,
but the data base software does not support the forms of the date and time
special values. How do I comply with the standard?
Software systems often use special methods internally to encode values
such as date and time. The main concern is that metadata provided to
others, especially metadata provided through the National Geospatial Data
Clearinghouse and for data transfer, be encoded using the forms specified
by the metadata standard.
