Aside from the problems with ISO 8601 (Markus G. Kuhn tells me it may be
intended only for dates after 1875, though a historian tells me they
convert dates to Gregorian anyway ...) and specifying B.C. dates,
it occurs to me that we need a recommended way to say "approximate".
How about "circa", as in
name="DC.date" content="circa 1845" ?
so that an indexing agent would be able to figure that this
did in fact fall in the nineteenth century, instead of being
unable to parse things like "c.", "approx.", "roughly", "maybe" etc. etc.
(Being Latin that should displease all language groups equally ... :-) )
Andrew Daviel mailto:[log in to unmask]
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