> Do you have any examples of the non-Gregorian dates being published online? > Or any examples of applications that can take non-Gregorian dates as input? > > I think we've established non-Gregorian calendars exist, but most countries > officially adopted the Gregorian calendar several decades before the web > existed (e.g. Japan in 1873). Such adoption wasn't exclusive, but it draws > into question (for me anyway) whether such calendars are common enough on > the web and have enough potential use cases to warrant modeling in > microformats. I realize it's difficult to do such research without > belonging to the cultures in which it would appear. Unfortunately that just > makes it more necessary to avoid mistakes. > > Peace, > Scott >
Just to clarify, the original point I was trying to make wasn't that we should model every possible language/calendar in the world. Just that it was unreasonable to expect that from a potential replacement for ISO 8601, since ISO 8601 itself does not meet that requirement. This was in response to "David O" who wrote: >Feel free to get started. I'm sure you can start a wiki page with a >listing of language/region codes and the suggested date format for >each. Since the current system handles every one of those languages >and countries/regions, it would only be logical to expect the same of >a suggested replacement. I hope I have convinced a few people that David O's logic falls down at the premise. But this is not to argue that we should make a replacement format that handles that usecase, but rather to consider replacements that don't, since such a replacement would be no worse than the current format, but *would* provide benefits that ISO8601 does not. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
