ISO 8601 is the normative definition for date or time representations THAT CLAIM CONFORMANCE TO ISO 8601. I don't believe the standard was written with a goal of being a general reference work on time and date notation in general. So, for example, I wouldn't take their choice of midnight to divide days as a statement that everyone who used the Gregorian calendar since 1582 has also divided the day at midnight.
Gerard Ashton -----Original Message----- From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 02:04 To: Leap Second Discussion List; G Ashton Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Bulletin C and all that -------- In message <[email protected]>, "G Ashton" writes: >Brooks Harris suggested ISO 8601:2004(E), 3.2.1 "The Gregorian >calendar" as a source about the Gregorian calendar. Thanks for the >suggestion, but I consider ISO 8601 to be garbage; it's so bad it makes >me dislike the entire organization. Fortunately your personal tastes or distastes have little impact on what is the normative definition. Like it or not, 8601 it is. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
