_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...
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John Steele
johnmsteele
Jun 23, 2005 12:21 pm
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...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 23, 2005 2:22 pm
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...
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John Steele
johnmsteele
Jun 23, 2005 3:49 pm
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...
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Walker Web Data
mancroft
Jun 23, 2005 6:25 pm
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...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Jun 23, 2005 10:23 pm
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 ...
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g1smd_amsat_org
Jun 24, 2005 12:27 am
[2005-Jun-24] Please do not quote large chunks of previous messages.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...
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Klaus Schmid
ljgks
Jun 26, 2005 1:18 pm
... adoption ... adoption. ... adoption ... Agree, this topic is interesting. Here some hypothetical reasons and statements about the slow adoption of ISO8601,...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 26, 2005 6:41 pm
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 ...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 29, 2005 12:07 am
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...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Jun 29, 2005 7:25 am
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...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jun 29, 2005 2:47 pm
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...
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Klaus Schmid
ljgks
Jun 29, 2005 6:59 pm
... will ... world until ... Herman, thanks for your comments, I think we have almost the same opinion about this. [...] ... else ... Yes, maybe this is a...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 1, 2005 6:23 am
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...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 7, 2005 5:37 pm
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 (...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 11, 2005 4:34 am
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...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Jul 11, 2005 4:57 am
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...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 11, 2005 4:57 am
Microsoft advocates. They want Microsoft date and time data type. hjw....
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 11, 2005 2:50 pm
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...
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Fred Bone
fjpbone
Jul 11, 2005 6:04 pm
... 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)?...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 11, 2005 10:01 pm
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...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Jul 12, 2005 6:39 am
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...
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hjwoudenberg@...
Jul 13, 2005 6:11 am
In a message dated 7/12/2005 1:39:58 A.M. Central Daylight Time, tex@... writes: Can you point us at some documents on the discussion you are...
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johnmsteele
Jul 14, 2005 5:31 pm
IERS announced in Bulletin C 30 (2005-07-04) that a leap second will be introduced at the end of 2005. Following the leap second, TAI-UTC = 33 s. ...
... 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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Klaus Schmid
ljgks
Jul 15, 2005 7:31 pm
... On http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html I found two other interesting dates: 2005-11-08/11: ITU-R WP7A, Geneva ...
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John Steele
johnmsteele
Jul 15, 2005 7:33 pm
Fred Bone <fred.bone@...> wrote:It might also be the last. Moves are afoot to redefine the relationship between UTC and UT1. If accepted, then from...
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NGUYEN Ivy
ali0917
Jul 16, 2005 6:19 am
Maybe it was chosen because it is the December solstice? I still wonder about why 2007, though. One hour sounds like too much of a difference to let UT1 & UTC...
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johnmsteele
Jul 21, 2005 6:58 pm
Not clear if this is on or off topic but may be of interest to the group. It appears Congress may extend DST from first Sunday in March to last Sunday in...
