- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 17:07:56 -0700
- To: "Martin Bryan" <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>, <www-international@w3.org>, <www-html@w3.org>
Martin Bryan wrote: >You have a computer which will be able to accept the power supply sources >that will be arround in 9999AD? Who knows? There may not be a 9999AD. But a standard date format that disallows references to pre-0000 and post-9999 dates is short-sighted. >If you want to deal with all dates, irrespective of Era, I suggest you adopt >the set of date definitions in ISO/IEC 10744, HyTime, which are designed to >allow an SGML representation of all dates. This will allow you to specify >the above date using the Julian, Gegorian, Hebrew, Chinese,.... calendars >without ambiguity. Can you point to an overview of HyTime? David Perrell
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