Re: Proposed Quality Tip -- Time in URIs (was URI Usability)

* Brian Kelly <b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk> 2004-05-01
> The current proposed tip seeks to provide examples which I don't think are
> scalable and universal.  For example /2004/w12/6/ is clearly English
> language specific.  Also dates and periods don't always start from 1 Jan.
> For example in (UK) Universities week 10 may be in Decemeber, as the start
> of the academic year begins in September of October.

Using ISO 8601 in URIs is only as international as ISO 8601 itself. ISO 8601
specifies '2004-W12-6', which is, unfortunately, Latin-specific.

Any format which uses 0-9 is not universal because many other scripts use
different digits. Examples:
    Devanagari: U+0966 to U+096F
    Telugu:     U+0C66 to U+0C6F
    Tamil:      U+0BE6 to U+0BEF

The tip could be named "ISO 8601 in URIs", but that would be un-interesting
and too specific. As of now, ISO 8601 is the only international standard on
time, therefore, "Dated URIs" is a reasonable name.
-- 
Rajasekaran Deepak <http://students.iiit.net/~deepakr/>

Received on Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:10:23 UTC