- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:53:06 +0100
- To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- CC: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Toby A Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>, whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > ... > Ultimately, why is the Gregorian calendar good enough for the ISO but > not us? I'm sure plenty of arguments were made to the ISO before ISO8601 > was published, yet that still supports only the Gregorian calendar, > having been revised twice since it's original publication in 1988. Is > there really any need to go beyond what ISO 8601 supports? > ... Indeed. We aren't the subject matter experts on calendars and date formats, so why do we pretend we are? BR, Julian
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