- From: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 06:44:47 +0100
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>, "Tim Chen" <timchen@u.washington.edu>, <www-international@w3.org>, <www-html@w3.org>
>Tim Chen wrote: > > >>I vote for yyyy-mm-dd format. > >Actually, year should not be confined to 4 digits -- t'would be sorely >regretted come the year 10000. You have a computer which will be able to accept the power supply sources that will be arround in 9999AD? >In deference to different calendars and pre-creational references, would it >not be wise to suffix the type and allow negative years? E.g. > > -2004-02-03-christian 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. Martin Bryan
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