On Wed 2016-04-27T15:13:02 -0400, Brooks Harris hath writ: > I understand. But its always seemed to me those old formats should > be obsolesced, that ISO 8601 presented an attractive alternative, > that the YMDhms order made such good sense. Of course formats must > remain reverse compatible, so they've proably had to stick with what > they'd done. But in your case the whole timescale is new (wait, > maybe its old? :-) ) so its an opportunity to suggest adopting a > more sensible and modern lexicon.
ISO 8601 specifies the Gregorian calendar, and 500 years ago there could be nobody using the Gregorian calendar. 500 years ago there were only a handful of clocks that had a minute hand, and they were not accurate to a minute a day. Whether or not this scheme uses ISO 8601, please be sure that the accompanying documentation explains that it cannot correspond to contemporary records of 500 years ago. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
