Exactly. Plus, what if an "unknown future date" value finds its way into a birthdate field where an "unknown past date" ought to be? etc. There is no need for...
In a message dated 7/1/2007 9:00:26 P.M. Central Daylight Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: Would you please stop trying to attach things?! Stick 'em in the...
In a message dated 7/1/2007 9:10:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: Exactly. Plus, what if an "unknown future date" value finds its...
It's foolish to think that REAL improvement ever might be possible as long as differences and/or irregularities in our (or any) date/time tracking systems will...
Actually, it is foolish to think we can’t improve. The fact that there are differences and irregularities just makes the job harder, not necessarily...
If you schedule a time to call someone, and you take your cell phone or appointment software to Europe, you will be reminded about a half dozen hours to ...
You must communicate the scheduled timepoint in UTC. If _you_ travel, _you_ must keep track of how that timepoint translates in _your_ current timezone....
I got an email this morning, someone asking for some data from "03/09/07", I replied "We don't have data going back to 2003-09- 07". I then went about getting...
... phone or ... dozen hours to ... US a ... standard. ... "The world" HAS that necessary standard. It's called: ISO 8601. In that standard, both UTC and Z...
[2007-Jul-13] I see that the Wikipedia entry for ISO 8601 has been heavily edited, mostly by one person. Several sections of the article, things that have been...
I just took a quick look and nothing jumped out at me as being grossly wrong. What would be wrong is if a particular piece of not-quite-rightness were left...
Hi there, Very good points. I considered this issue at some length when designing the time subsystem on the NxtPhase Relays and Recorders some years ago. I...
... globe, ... What other factors? Time zone is not defined in ISO 8601. Actual time shift between local (or standard) time and UTC is. And there, GPS comes...
... (So tempted... so tempted...) ... I think my point may have been that you can't go directly from GPS-to- offset, you'll need some sort of lookup table...
Well, at the time the guy with club didn't know he was supposed to count backwards. However ISO does define the date format for prior to current era. The...
Most people wouldn't believe that today different software gets different date/time results. Because: The industry does not have date/time standards for...
... Maybe. ... the same ... Not so much. ISO 8601 allows for virtually unlimited range and precision, which is OK, for textual interchange, but impractical for...
In a message dated 5/14/2008 5:21:06 P.M. Central Daylight Time, PIEBALDconsult@... writes: Maybe. ... the same ... Not so much. ISO 8601 allows for...
All the parts of the standard that discuss Universal Time or time zones specify that everything is based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). But UTC didn't...
8601 also requires the use of the Gregorian calendar, which did not exist prior to 1582, for all dates. It is easy to extrapolate back. For time, the concept...
Some people who write in Wikipedia are interested in using microformats to provide a machine-readable version of important dates and times, in the hopes that...
