I also was massively disappointed. I think it was the "we dont want to argue so lets put the least argumentative join over everything said in the room that one time" outcome.
If you ever play with date-time in images, and dive into EXIF date-time encoding you enter the door of "yes, we know people need to say "around 1800" but we've decided not to make a canonical system for indicating approximate dates, ante- or post- dates, or the necessary mapping into YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS so instead you can come up with your own non-standard"
If you ever play with date-time in images, and dive into EXIF date-time encoding you enter the door of "yes, we know people need to say "around 1800" but we've decided not to make a canonical system for indicating approximate dates, ante- or post- dates, or the necessary mapping into YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS so instead you can come up with your own non-standard"
And a lot of the discussion points back to the DC