The latest release of http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html is now available for use and review. Summary: General summary of calendars, dates,...
TO: Gilbert HEALTON Peter HAAS Peter NELSON Gilbert you have carried out a great deal of work over the years particularly with your analysis of how dates are...
Stephen GOULD
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Mar 5, 2002 8:18 pm
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On 2002-Feb-26 Stephen Gould wrote(>): [2002-Mar-08] ... As it happens I did another quick review of current titles in that same bookshop a few weeks ago; that...
On 2002-Feb-27 Stephen Gould wrote(>): [2002-Mar-08] ... This is why some organisations have printed a 'short list' of formats that are acceptable. The most...
[2002-Mar-10] According to the document located at: <http://www.uninfo.polito.it/TC154/TC154public/154n384_154-18_res.pdf> there was a request that the ISO...
[2002-Mar-10] Both the 'Files' and 'Bookmarks' sections of the ISO 8601 YahooGroups web site have been updated today. Please take a look sometime. More entries...
[2002-Mar-10] There is another FTP site that has been found, which contains PDF copies of the various versions of the ISO 8601 standard, from the published...
Hi Ian - thank you for your comprehensive response - my replies are included. In summary the key issues include: 1 How do we assist software developers to use...
Stephen GOULD
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Mar 10, 2002 7:51 pm
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... This is true. Below is the negative response that I received from an ISO representative, in response to my queries of 2001-02-14 and ... Aron Roberts...
... That seems to me to be a limitation of your email client. The information is there for the UTC to be calculated and displayed. My personal preference is...
... Just add a day to the email's date and you'll know when someone might read a reply. Most people read mail periodically every day. There is no need for...
Eduardo, That may be true for you, but it is not true for everyone. I do a lot of international mail, and often it is valuable to assess if a correspondent is...
Service Announcement Groups will be down for scheduled maintenance Friday 2002 Mar 15 21:00 PST (UTC-0800). We expect to restore service the morning of Sunday...
The time delimiter is "T' The fraction is a period rather than the ISO preferred comma',' The permit ISO reductions: Dropping seconds Dropping minutes Dropping...
hjwoudenberg@...
Mar 19, 2002 5:21 pm
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It is not a standard. It is a note. Having said that, can you make your point more clear? Are there some particular issues you want to address? tex -- ... Tex...
5.5. Simplicity The complete set of date and time formats specified in ISO 8601[ISO8601] is quite complex in an attempt to provide multiple representations and...
hjwoudenberg@...
Mar 23, 2002 1:49 pm
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[2002-Mar-24] ... [SNIP] ... Unfortunately, this does NOT include ISO 8601:2000. However, as ISO are obviously not making enough money selling their standards...
ISO International Standards 5.3.1.3 Representation of decimal fractions ".. the decimal fraction shall be divided from the integer part by the decimal sign...
hjwoudenberg@...
Mar 25, 2002 1:28 am
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The relational database model was originally developed by Dr. E.F. Codd in the early 1970s. The SQL language was originally developed by IBM in a prototype...
hjwoudenberg@...
Mar 25, 2002 3:02 am
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OK, but SQL existed for a rather short period in the overall scheme of things, and RDBMS is a small percentage of the software that exists today (compare to...
hjwoudenberg@... wrote a rather confusing message quoting fragments of ISO 8601 with additional comments and questions which at least open the possibility...
Ed Davies
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Mar 25, 2002 11:47 am
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I think looking at the effort required to implement is important. What percentage of the software in the industry will determine that two dates are equal if...
hjwoudenberg@...
Mar 25, 2002 2:33 pm
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In a message dated 3/25/2002 5:48:24 AM Central Standard Time, ... I was asked to comment on what I thought was not good about the ISO standards. Therefore I...
hjwoudenberg@...
Mar 25, 2002 2:39 pm
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In a message dated 3/25/2002 6:11:05 AM Central Standard Time, ... Network Working Group G. Klyne, MIMEsweeper GroupInternet Draft...
hjwoudenberg@...
Mar 25, 2002 2:50 pm
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You can find his presentation on line He has given it to the 16th 18th and 20th UNICODE conferences Search Tex Texin Date Time. Tell him what you think of it? ...
hjwoudenberg@...
Mar 25, 2002 5:02 pm
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... ================================ I am always glad to get feedback, although this note from hjwoudenberg was not at my direction. There is a version hosted...