- From: Ashok Malhotra <ashokma@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 16:04:41 -0700
- To: <zongaro@ca.ibm.com>, <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3-xml-schema-wg@w3.org>, <lmartin@ca.ibm.com>
I found additional confirmation that the 2000 version of ISO 8601 does,
indeed, allow the year 0000. I don't know what it maps to in terms on
AD and BC because AD 1 == 0001 and BC 1 == -0001. Should we discuss as
a possible errata item.
Ashok
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From: zongaro@ca.ibm.com
Sent: Thu 8/9/2001 2:02 PM
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Subject: Year 0000
Hello,
I just saw a copy of ISO 8601:2000. I was surprised to
discover that it defines 0000 to be a valid year, unlike the
specification of dateTime in the "XML Schema: Datatypes" recommendation
[1]. I gather that in ISO 8601:2000, the year 0000 is roughly
equivalent to what people usually refer to as 1BC, and is a leap year.
Should dateTime follow ISO 8601:2000 in this respect?
Thanks,
Henry
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/#dateTime
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