This was posted to another group I read: On Wednesday of this coming week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 o'clock in the morning, the time and...
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NGUYEN Ivy
ali0917
Apr 4, 2006 1:44 pm
Wow. Just shows ISO 8601 or a very similar unambiguous needs to be adapted. Will the current nonsense continue past the end of this decade, where dates like...
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BUDAI A. Endre
bandi@...
Apr 4, 2006 5:00 pm
... From: NGUYEN Ivy To: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [ISO8601] Uh oh Wow. Just shows ISO 8601 or a very similar...
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NGUYEN Ivy
ali0917
Apr 5, 2006 12:11 am
Google's Gmail service automatically inserts the date (in an ambiguous format) to replied messages. It should say 4 April 2006, 2006-04-04, or similar, but it...
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John Hynes
johndhynes
Apr 5, 2006 3:12 am
You mean, -06-05-04T03:02:01+00 or -060504T030201Z. (pre :2004, of course)...
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Fred Bone
fjpbone
Apr 5, 2006 8:57 am
... So the end of the world really IS nigh? ;->...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 7, 2006 1:04 am
... Only twice every hundred years. (Once if you use a 24-hour clock, but then you would use that silly ordering.)...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 7, 2006 1:05 am
... Dang, _wouldn't_ ....
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John Bogie
jaberwok10
Apr 7, 2006 7:29 pm
How about 06/05/04 03:02:01 at two minutes and one second past 3 a.m. on the fourth of May? ... From: ISO8601@yahoogroups.com...
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Michael Deckers
michaeldeckers
Apr 7, 2006 7:31 pm
... ISO 8601:2000 allowed for truncated representations such as -W-1 meaning "this Monday" or "any Monday" and ISO 8601:1988 even had two different notations...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Apr 7, 2006 7:49 pm
Wow, was this really sent apr 3 and just arriving apr 7? (pardon the lack of 8601 representation above) Anyway with respect to the suggestion to represent the...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 7, 2006 10:16 pm
... Certainly you can have an additional field with whatever data you like and you can use a numeric and that can be a number of the day of the week as...
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John Hynes
johndhynes
Apr 8, 2006 2:03 am
... It is unnecessary and redundant to show both the calendar date and day of week, since each unique (Gregorian) calendar date can be associated with one, and...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 12, 2006 4:55 am
... As my father (and I) is fond of saying: "Never say the same thing twice and be redundant."...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 12, 2006 4:57 am
By the by... the 126 Swiss Francs worked out to $97.80 US...
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hjwoudenberg@...
hjwoudenberg
Apr 13, 2006 5:00 pm
It is my rationale that ISO-8601, although a masterpiece of documentation, needs more detail to become more successful. It needs a definition for two not a...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 13, 2006 7:27 pm
... for two not ... Not that again, didn't you already post that twice this year? You don't perform multiplication or division on temporal data so how would...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Apr 13, 2006 7:35 pm
Hi, There is a difference between "not a date" and a "date value is missing or not yet specified" (empty date field/null string). I can see one NAD. I don't...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 13, 2006 7:48 pm
... missing or ... Then I don't see how "not a date" could be useful. In math I can see that an imaginary value is not a real value, but how can that apply to ...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 13, 2006 8:21 pm
... Other than the typo you mean? Or what about: 2006-04-01T12:30:45.123 and 20060401T123045.123 ? Performing _any_ kind of operation is not in the scope of...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 13, 2006 8:31 pm
... specifies internal representation and manipulation of _real_ number values. It recognizes that there are number values that are _not_ on the real axis, but...
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piebaldconsult
Apr 13, 2006 8:35 pm
Oh wait, maybe timepoints in the proleptic Gregorian calendar are not dates? Or values from the Julian or other calendars?...
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hjwoudenberg@...
hjwoudenberg
Apr 14, 2006 12:48 am
In a message dated 4/13/2006 3:32:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: ISO 8601 also requires a value be a distinct point on the time...
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hjwoudenberg@...
hjwoudenberg
Apr 14, 2006 12:49 am
In a message dated 4/13/2006 3:36:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: Oh wait, maybe timepoints in the proleptic Gregorian calendar...
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hjwoudenberg@...
hjwoudenberg
Apr 14, 2006 12:51 am
In a message dated 4/13/2006 4:24:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: Performing _any_ kind of operation is not in the scope of ISO...
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hjwoudenberg@...
hjwoudenberg
Apr 14, 2006 12:51 am
In a message dated 4/13/2006 2:28:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: Not that again, didn't you already post that twice this year? ...
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hjwoudenberg@...
hjwoudenberg
Apr 14, 2006 12:53 am
In a message dated 4/13/2006 5:22:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, tex@... writes: I can see one NAD. I don't see why we need high and low versions of...
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hjwoudenberg@...
hjwoudenberg
Apr 14, 2006 1:21 am
When were you born? When did you die? When were you married? When were you born might be unknown, but was in the past (as happens in third world countries). ...
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Tex Texin
textexin
Apr 14, 2006 1:40 am
none of those by themselves is an argument for nad. You can use the empty value. However, supposing you ask someone for a birth date. While you are waiting for...
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hjwoudenberg@...
hjwoudenberg
Apr 14, 2006 3:30 am
In a message dated 4/13/2006 8:40:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time, tex@... writes: in the context of 8601, it would be good to have a uniform way to...
