Just a note about interplanetary timekeeping, (as I hinted some time ago), using seconds might be an improvement over the confusion of hours, minutes and days,...
With the ISO prolaptic calendar, by definition, the day before Ad 0001-01-01 is 0000-12-31 With the Julian Calendar the day before AD 0001-0-01 is BC...
hjwoudenberg@...
Feb 17, 2004 3:01 am
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I always have wondered how something like this is handled. Take for instance the last day of 1 BCE. Is that day the 31st of December (years far before zero go...
... 0001-01-01 ... 31 ... a zero. ... with cardinal ... become so ... expanded ... YYYYYY-MM-DD + ... expanded ... There has to be a year CE 0 in order for...
On 2004-02-16T15:02Z you wrote ... From: hjwoudenberg@... [mailto:hjwoudenberg@...] Subject: [ISO8601] ISO-8601 uses the prolaptic Gregorian Calender. ...
How many negative years must it support? My software supports from -9999-01-01 to +9999-12-31. The prolaptic Gregorain calander specifications do not allow for...
hjwoudenberg@...
Feb 20, 2004 6:17 am
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... It doesn't have to support *any* negative years to be compliant. In fact, it doesn't have to support dates ouside the year-range 1582 to 9999 to be...
... larger range ... and ... I agree with Fred's answer on whether it must support negative years. If your internal representation is some kind of day count, I...
... Take ... December (years ... days still ... months go ... past or ... and ... first day ... either, as ... the ... I wrote a reply to this once but the...
Three question on ISO-8601 compliant software: 1. Must compliant software support both positive and negative dates? Yes or no. If yes how many years, 4,5,6 ? ...
hjwoudenberg@...
Feb 21, 2004 4:31 am
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In a message dated 2/20/2004 4:53:20 AM Central Standard Time, fred.bone@... writes: It doesn't have to support *any* negative years to be...
hjwoudenberg@...
Feb 21, 2004 3:07 pm
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... That's a toughie. At the time, most people showed two dates for their birthday, like 11/22 January. Maybe appending a letter to the date would help? 11...
In a message dated 2/21/2004 9:25:57 AM Central Standard Time, adam917@... writes: Maybe appending a letter to the date would help? 11 January (J) /...
hjwoudenberg@...
Feb 21, 2004 3:36 pm
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In a message dated 2/20/2004 3:34:13 PM Central Standard Time, aron@... writes: This is to note the availability of a emerging third-party...
hjwoudenberg@...
Feb 21, 2004 4:02 pm
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Hi, To me a domain ending in .il is Israeli. Maybe you mean .il.us? There are many reason to use an approach that is easily modifiable, such as being table...
In a message dated 2/21/2004 9:25:57 AM Central Standard Time, adam917@... writes: Maybe appending a letter to the date would help? 11 January (J) /...
Herman, thanks for the compliment, but I don't think it's true. I might be among the more vocal is all. 1) The standard says years are in the range 0 to 9999....
When Geo. Washington was born, the date was February 11th and the year was 1731 -- not 1732 (which I always remeber as the square-root of 3). In September...
... dates? Yes ... or no. ... I am not as expert as Tex, but reading the standard, the anser seems to be no to all. On truncation and expansion (4.6 and 4.7)...
On 2004-02-17T11:22Z you wrote ... Take ... December (years ... days still ... months go ... past or ... and ... first day ... either, as ... the ... Only the...
... Calendar. ... Gregorian? ... "Should be" is perhaps debatable. The date that "is" used is Gregorian. If you search web sites, you can find image of family ...
... calendar and ... changed (If ... You are correct. The offset grows by one day for each centennial Leap Day that is in the Julian calendar, but not in the...
In a message dated 2/21/2004 1:08:24 PM Central Standard Time, tex@... writes: I don't think your questions are really about compliance. Where the...
hjwoudenberg@...
Feb 22, 2004 7:32 am
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No, I am saying your questions are really more about what potential customers are looking for in iso8601-based products than in the meaning of compliance. So...
If this is not the correct forum, please help direct me. thanks. We have an application that supports users across the world. We have a table that contains the...
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