A rough guide:

Emperor's name, YY, [MM '月' [DD '日']]

White space, commas anywhere but ignored. How does that match?

Cheers

Chaals

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:02:54 +0200, Stephen Stead <[log in to unmask]>  
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> Speaking from the CIDOC CRM community: we would welcome the spec to help
> with the integration of material carrying this form of date.
> Thanks
> SdS
>
>
> Stephen Stead
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Charles McCathieNevile
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> Subject: Another kind of date...
>
> Hi folks,
>
> In Japan it is very common to find dates that look like
>
> (emperor's name) Year of reign (numeric month) ? (numeric day) ?
>
> This is a halfway case between the idea of Chinese dynasties (which are
> not really used for dates in the computer age, only historical ones) and
> W3C DTF etc. I am wondering if there is some value in writing a quick  
> spec
> to handle these (it is mostly copy/paste from the shortform spec I did
> last year), partly as a service and partly as another example.
>
> A major question is whether Japanese people care - since this date form  
> is
> more or less unused outside Japan. (Inside Japan it is on coins, lifts,
> posters, all kinds of stuff).
>
> Which is why I copied Shigeo, Matsuhiro (Dublin Core geeks in Japan) and  
> ?
> ??? - an Opera guy with some idea about Dublin Core. If nobody is going
> to use it, the two days of work is probably pointless. (10 days if I work
> with a japanese standardisation process to make sure that they are the
> real owners, which makes more sense...)
>
> Cheers
>
> Chaals
>



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