Ann Apps wrote:
>
> Seasons are a particular problem: is Spring March or April?;
> does Winter mean December or January, ie. is this the beginning
> or the end of the year?
As Alex pointed out last week - seasons also require an
indication of hemisphere.
Where I live, spring is September-November. If a date string is
detached from the
rest of an identifier which might indicate publication location,
in a "search"
for example, then simplistic methods could become misleading.
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