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 PerrellReceived on Thursday, 23 October 1997 20:10:22 UTC
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