- From: Williams, Stuart <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:17:19 +0100
- To: "'Larry Masinter'" <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
Hi Larry, I'd noticed in an earlier draft that the date syntax assigned a fixed four digits to the year field, so there's a bit of an issue year dates >9999. Clearly this won't bother us for a while and some would likely regard it as optimistic or even arrogant to expect this scheme to be in use some 8000 years from now. Anyway, all I was going to suggest was a separator between the year and the rest of the date, so that just as a date/time can be expressed to arbitrary precision the year may also grow arbitarily large eg: date = year ['-' month [ day [ hour [ minute [ second [ fraction ]]]]]] year = *digit month = 2digit day = 2digit hour = 2digit minute = 2digit second = 2digit fraction = *digit I guess its a fix that those living around 9997 can worry about, and you never know it may give rise to another short lived panic - folks will likely have forgotten all the fun leading up to the year 2000 by then. Best regards Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Masinter [mailto:masinter@adobe.com] > Sent: 01 April 2002 23:56 > To: uri@w3.org > Subject: new 'duri'/'tdb' draft sent to internet-drafts editor > > > In response to some comments, I've updated the dated-uri > specification, and, along the way, updated to the xml2rfc > format. > > http://larry.masinter.net/duri.html > http://larry.masinter.net/duri.txt > and > http://larry.masinter.net/duri.xml > > >
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