[fitsbits] start of Public Comment Period on the CHECKSUM convention

[Mark Calabretta]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 10:35:09 -0700
Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:

>My request is that the date/timestamp remain optional.  This should
>be true of all FITS-or-other-astronomical-data-format processing
>timestamps (as opposed to science timestamps).

Optional?  Yes of course.  All FITS reading software must allow for
everything to be optional.

Regards,
Mark Calabretta