- From: Ingo Macherius <Ingo.Macherius@TU-Clausthal.de>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 06:00:39 +0000
- To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
> Once upon a time David Perrell shaped the electrons to say... > >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. > > Megazone replied: > How many digits is enough then? 5? 6? Wouldn't want to mess up the > turn of the eon... Does someone remember the way Pascal organizes it's strings ? First byte is not a character, but gives the numer of valid bytes in the string, which follows unterminated afterwards. Using decimal notation, 0-9 significant digits would be possible. If this mechanism is split intto two different attributes, an unlimited number of digits are possible. Just a thought, may well be overkill :) ++im -- Ingo Macherius // L'Aigler Platz 4 // D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld mailto:Ingo.Macherius@tu-clausthal.de http://www.tu-clausthal.de/~inim/ Information!=Knowledge!=Wisdom!=Truth!=Beauty!=Love!=Music==BEST (Frank Zappa)
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