- From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:46:18 +0000
In message <CAAF25CF-1FBE-494C-8361-E6811B6C5EC3 at googlemail.com>, Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar at googlemail.com> writes >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? What were the use-case(s) for ISO8601? If merely the exchange of calendar information, it's unlikely that it took account of the pre-Gregorian/ BCE/ imprecise situations under consideration here. -- Andy Mabbett
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