On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 13:57 -0700, Steve Allen wrote: > > 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
The accompanying documentation explains at great length that this time scale does not correspond to civil time. It is intended for use by historians writing about past events for a non-specialist audience. It is similar proleptic Gregorian, which is used by Mayan scholars who want to describe a date using terminology that is familiar to the general reader. John Sauter ([email protected]) -- PGP fingerprint = E24A D25B E5FE 4914 A603 49EC 7030 3EA1 9A0B 511E
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