Andrew Daviel wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Misha Wolf wrote:
>
> > How about ...
> >
> > The date the resource was issued. Recommended best practice is a date
> > encoded according to http://www.w3.org/..., a profile of the ISO 8601 date
> ..
> > second. In those cases where an ISO 8601 date format is not suitable
> > (eg the date precedes year 0 of the Christian Era), an appropriate scheme
> > should be used and be identified in an unambiguous manner.
>
> It seems that ISO8601 dates are not formally defined prior to 1875 or
> something. If we adopt ISO8601 dates back to 0AD it should be stated that
> DC dates are by default Gregorian or NS (New Style), especially for dates
> prior to 1572 or whenever it was Pope Gregory introduced the new scheme.
If anyone (Andrew?) is willing to put together a suitable health warning
re dates prior to 1875/1572(?), Charles and I will add it to the ISO 8601
profile.
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