[Bug 3040] Date and dateTime formats do not allow some valid ISO 8601 values

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3040


john.hockaday@ga.gov.au changed:

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------- Comment #2 from john.hockaday@ga.gov.au  2006-09-27 01:37 -------
I'm not sure what spec you are suggesting I have misunderstood.  I am referring
to ISO 8601:2004 section 4.1.2.3 "Representation with reduced accuracy".  It
provides very clear definitions of this representation with three examples as
follows:

"1985-04" for a specific month of a specific year, 
"1985" for a specfic year and
"19" for a specific century.

I don't see how I can misunderstand the content of section 4.1.2.3 of ISO
8601:2004 in this respect.

It seems to me that you have not allowed for this very important reduced
accuracy representation of dates as it is *very* common for only the century,
year or month to be known.

I look forward to your response to this need.

Thanks.


John