I hope to submit some proposals to the working group reviewing ISO 8601.
It would help if others joined in. Some info follows:
> Dear Mr Wolf,
> I found out the following from DIN, which provides the secretariat for
> TC 154:
>
> - The latest version is the 1st Edition which was issued in June 1988.
> - It has been under review for the past 6 months ...
> - The working group set up to undertake the review reported in June
> that no new progress had yet been made.
> - The responsibility for this standard remains with TC154.
> - The next full meeting of TC 154 will be in the second quarter of
> 1998.
>
> Given the above information, if you have any comments on ISO 8601 then
> if you would like to send them to me, I will ensure that they are
> discussed within the UK (since the UK link to TC154 is via UKCEDIS and
> I am the UK representative to TC 154). If the comments require further
> explanation then I will request that you are invited to the relevant
> meeting.
In the UK, date and time standards are "owned" by the EDI community.
Are there any BSI members on this list who would help me get other parts
of BSI interested? I can see that the EDI folk wouldn't be terribly
interested in years < 0 and in years > 9999.
Others can work through their own national member bodies. For example,
I'm sure the Z39.50 and MARC people have good contacts in ANSI.
Another way of participating is to seek direct liasion with the
responsible ISO committee (TC154).
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