I'm sure astronmers everywhere would have preferred Julian Days, ie 245 3461.500 John Hynes <john@...> wrote: The new version of the ISO 8601 standard is...
... Astronomers also use Gregorian dates, in year-month-day order, with the fractional day added to the ordinal day of month. For instance, the standard epoch...
I've noticed quite often, that people & organisations try to go to the new date standard, but do not understand, that it is more than just the replacement of...
_http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#isoformats_ (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#isoformats) Anyone know why ISO-8601 has a year zero. More support for...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 22, 2005 8:49 pm
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Yes. ISO 8601 uses the astronomical convention that 1 BCE is the year 0000. This is explained in notes following 4.3.2.1 of the 2000 Draft. This greatly aids...
In a message dated 6/23/2005 7:21:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time, johnmsteele@... writes: ISO8601 is really not too useful for dates before the...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 23, 2005 2:22 pm
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hjwoudenberg@... wrote: Very true. However, should software support it? I don't know if it "should" in the sense of "needs to." I have no issue if it...
Bona vada! John M Steele said "However, one has to ask, "Does it matter?" in reply to the question, "Anyone know why ISO-8601 has a year zero?" Sanity and...
Why does 8601 introduce a year 0? To get to the other side! Should software support it? Yes. If you implement the standard, it should be a complete ...
[2005-Jun-24] Please do not quote large chunks of previous messages. There is no need. We have already seen the previous message (and they are all archived at...
... adoption ... adoption. ... adoption ... Agree, this topic is interesting. Here some hypothetical reasons and statements about the slow adoption of ISO8601,...
In a message dated 6/26/2005 8:19:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time, klaus.schmid@... writes: software must reflect the preferences of the rest of the world ...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 26, 2005 6:41 pm
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Frequently, I must get the last day of the month, 31,30,29, and 28 I have a function that allows me to set any element year, month, day, hour, minute, second...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 29, 2005 12:07 am
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Hi, Your algorithm is the common way to calculate the last day of the month. I am not sure if you are asking a question or not. A date library should have such...
In a message dated 6/29/2005 2:26:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time, tex@... writes: Are you asking what an ISO 8601 syntax would be to express: a) The...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 29, 2005 2:47 pm
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... will ... world until ... Herman, thanks for your comments, I think we have almost the same opinion about this. [...] ... else ... Yes, maybe this is a...
From wimpy to robust functions. Previously they could do: P01M -P01D Now the can also do: P=01D+01M-01D They can do any combination of setting a value, adding...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 1, 2005 6:23 am
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I believe it can be used to standardize functions, for example the finding the difference of two dates. I have made a function: Difference = function (...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 7, 2005 5:37 pm
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XML is the big guns of today. XML has endorsed ISO-8601 syntax XML has endorsed ISO-8601 duration. ICF (international components for UNICDE) does not. JAVA...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 11, 2005 4:34 am
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hjw trolls: XML is the big guns of today. XML has endorsed ISO-8601 syntax XML has endorsed ISO-8601 duration. ICF (international components for UNICDE) does...
Microsoft advocates. They want Microsoft date and time data type. hjw....
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 11, 2005 4:57 am
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In a message dated 7/10/2005 11:57:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time, tex@... writes: Where I stand is I straddle standards and technologies, and I live...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 11, 2005 2:50 pm
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... This doesn't make any sense at all. What would be the use of such a thing in the context of a textual representation (which is what ISO8601 is about)?...
In a message dated 7/11/2005 1:04:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time, fred.bone@... writes: This doesn't make any sense at all. What would be the use of...
hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 11, 2005 10:01 pm
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HJW: Can you point us at some documents on the discussion you are referring to? We don't have any context for this. From the original mail, I thought it was...
... It might also be the last. Moves are afoot to redefine the relationship between UTC and UT1. If accepted, then from 2007-12-21T00:00(*) UTC would no longer...
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