I saw Old Style on Thomas Jefferson's Tombstone this summer on
vacation.
First thing I think to myself is.... hmmm... does 8601 cover this?
I think that vacation wasn't quite long enough.
stu
On Tuesday, September 30, 1997 12:51 PM, Misha Wolf
[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> 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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