[FIX] Clarify shifting dates RECOMMENDED, add example EDF #891
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closes #698
While browsing #698, I realized that in the spec we are slightly inconsistent: In the modality agnostic files section, we RECOMMEND that shifted dates are in the year 1925 or earlier, and emphasize that shifting is RECOMMENDED, not required.
Yet in the Common Principles section, we write:
In this PR I propose to rephrase what we have in Common Principles and clarify that shifting dates is RECOMMENDED (not required) and preferably done to or prior to 1925 (but again, not required).
I think that makes the spec both more consistent, and avoids nonsensical situations were we have a data format like EDF which cannot technically contain recording dates prior to 1985, but which BIDS REQUIRES to have a date prior to 1925.