I think this is a major agenda item for the Monday afternoon Open
Issues Plenary
we need to settle DATE
come prepared with arguments and strawman proposals
stu
On Thursday, October 02, 1997 3:34 PM, Misha Wolf
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> There are a number of eggs in the air regarding the date element.
They
> include:
>
> 1. its name,
> 2. its semantics,
> 3. its granularity,
> 4. dates before the introduction of the Georgian calendar.
>
> This mail deals only with point 3. If at all possible, I'd like to
settle
> the granularity issue. The current wording on the DC Web site is:
>
> [The semantic definition goes here]
> Recommended best practice is an 8 digit number in the form
YYYY-MM-DD
> as defined in http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime, a profile of ISO
8601.
> In this scheme, the date element 1994-11-05 corresponds to November
5,
> 1994. Many other schema are possible, but if used, they should be
> identified in an unambiguous manner.
>
> On September 29 I mailed a suggested wording which allows the various
> granularities permitted by the profile. I have seen no replies on the
> meta2 list and don't know whether this indicates agreement,
disagreement
> or boredom. The suggested wording is:
>
> [The semantic definition goes here]
> Recommended best practice is a date encoded according to
> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime, a profile of the ISO 8601 date
> encoding standard. The profile supports a number of levels of
> granularity, ranging from a year (eg 1997), through a complete date
> (eg 1997-07-16), to a complete date plus hours, minutes, seconds
and a
> decimal fraction of a 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 identified in an
> unambiguous manner.
>
> Comments?
>
>
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