- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:05:44 +0200
Ernest Cline wrote: > From a practical viewpoint, being able to specify dates before > January 1, 1 BC (Gregorian) would allow for historical dates not > currently available to be specified in markup of documents concerning > history. Such dates do not need to be published on the web in machine readable readable formats. How often to do you need to book a flight, or add an event to your calendar that far back in the past? > ...The Y10K problem can also be pushed back by this, but is of only > theoretical importance. There are still 7992 years before we need to have a Y10K solution implemented. Thus we can safely leave it to to future generations to solve. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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