Hi there,
I have been lurking on this list for about a year now and would like to get
some input from you regarding ISO8601. My company wants to use the Dublin
Core tags in one of our products. We would also like to use ISO8601 for
storing dates in the DC.date tag as well as other date related fields but
find the profile is lacking in the year area because it is limited to the
years from 0000 to 9999.
I know that Misha has already mentioned that this is a shortcoming and that
those of us who need years outside of that range should use a diferent
standard.
What I would like to hear from you is what you recommend we use. We have
been discussing the possiblity of using a modified ISO8601 by not limiting
the year to 4 digits but using as many digits as are needed to represent
the year. This should not become a problem while parsing because the
various date/time elements already have delimiters seperating them.
This would allow archeologists, peleontologists, geologists, etc to use the
standard for recording dates well before 0000. Even librarians have works
written by Plato and others well before the year 0000.
If ISO8601 is not the solution for us what should we use?
Thanks in advance,
Robin Martherus
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Robin Martherus [log in to unmask]
Verano, Inc. phone 415/237-0207
411 Clyde Avenue fax 415/237-0211
Mountain View, CA 94043
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