[2002-Apr-02] ... I did this, and I found that my own settings were OK, but many other people have found that their settings have been reverted to those which...
[2002-Apr-10] There is another web site that has been found, which contains PDF copies of the various versions of the ISO 8601 standard, from the published...
[2002-Apr-12] There is another web site that has been found, which contains PDF copies of the various versions of the ISO 8601 standard, from the published...
[2002-Apr-14] There is another web site that has been found, which contains PDF copies of the various versions of the ISO 8601 standard, from the published...
[2002-Apr-16] There is another web site that has been found, which contains PDF copies of the various versions of the ISO 8601 standard, from the published...
From "The ISO 8601 Date Format" by Peter Meyer at http://serendipity.magnet.ch/hermetic/cal_stud/formats.htm ... Whether there are limits to the dates which...
I realize that the purpose of the standard is to specify the format, not the contents, so the whole year 0 thing should be off-topic, but I saw it on that page...
... No. Not at all. There is no need for two year-zeros. Only one year receives the number zero: it is the year commonly referred to as 1 BC. The year...
laartphoto is right that "There is no need for two year-zeros", but his comments actually miss the point: The concept of +/- 0 is inherently non-sensical. You...
Morris, Mike
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Apr 27, 2002 11:40 pm
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A) I agree that the minus sign (-) is overused. Perhaps *all* symbols for mathematical operations are poor choices for delimiters. B) Being American, I still...
... [snip] ... The point is mentioned in the footnotes pp5,6. I think the word "proleptic" is missspelt. But the method of counting using negative numbers is...
Harry Shipley
shipley@...
Apr 28, 2002 8:15 am
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... This is silly and irrelevant! If Merlin wants December to be represented by "month -1" then I suppose that's OK, but this extension would apply to all...
Laartphoto: I think you are onto something with 2 names for the same point. But why stop with two? Why not have 10 names for the same point or more? We can...
... It's like logarithms. Where you have tables for dealing with the fractional parts (calendar of log tables) which are basically positive, it is an ...
Harry Shipley
shipley@...
Apr 29, 2002 10:43 am
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...and a slash may also represent a division sign, or "per" ;-) Jon Sears...
jsears
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Apr 29, 2002 1:30 pm
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Umm, of course you can give many names to each point, I call one of the points "my birthday". You don't need to call that point that, you can and probably do...
ISO 8601 is mentioned prominently within a recent article by ANDY HORNING in The Indianapolis Star News. I discovered it on a clipping service, via the...
Apparently my sarcasm didn't help refine the discussion. I am of course trying to understand why you want more than one name for a single point. It satisfies...
I'm a very casual reader of this list, and I must admit that my earlier posting didn't take the subject matter context into account. I still think it would be...
Morris, Mike
Mike.Morris@...
Apr 29, 2002 11:38 pm
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Mike, interesting comments. If plus or minus were a notation for indicating an interval denoted by a starting or ending point, then I can see some purpose,...
On 2002-04-29 16:37:47 -0700n Mike.Morris said ... This is a great debate! it could continue until hell ices over! There is nothing silly about +/-0. Only...
< I'm also ignorant of what is probably the crux of the issue: Does 8601 define, imply or endorse a year zero? Or are years 1 and -1 contiguous? ... ISO 8601...
Hi, Actually 8601 specifies the format and is very clear on handling years before 1582, including the specification of year 0 and leap years before 1582 to...
Are there any other mathematicians on this list? The number 0 does not use any signs. It is neither positive nor negative. The year "2002" is not an interval....
Archie Medrano <amedrano@...> wrote in ... I'm a mathematics student, FWIW. ... This is correct, cf. <URL: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Zero.html >. But...
1. You asked for the opinion of a "mathematician". I suppose I qualify (see below). 2. What you say below is essentially correct. 3. The number zero is...
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