Question about future dates

[ianwallen]

I have a question about metadata dates being in the future.

I would expect that metadata records are generally expected to reflect information that has already occurred. I would expect associated dates (e.g., creation date, publication date, last update date) to pertain to events that have taken place in the past. Using future dates for creation, publication, or last update dates in metadata does not seems to align with the standard's typical use case. I would expect that these dates are intended to provide a historical context for the dataset or resource being described.

So I would like to know if there is any real use case for allowing dates to be in the future?

If future dates are not required then we should modify the schematron to reject future dates.

What are other people thoughts on this matter?

[ianwallen]

@bo-lu, @CarHenkel,

Would like to hear your input on this question.