On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Breton Slivka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. >
And just for the record, I would happily construct such a wikipage, but I am overcommitted as it is! Perhaps in time, once some things are calmed down. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss