I came across such a problem when importing data from the Chinese calendar. But here we are talking about the format, not the actual date. And UTC is supposed to cater for the DST and country codes problem. I like the stardate idea though. Having said that, there is no relationship to real time. Maybe we need to carbon date the planet and use that to base the start date on. I'm not going to A.D., and the like else I will have to go OT and not see my post :) Allen
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 25 June 2007 15:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Automation with Word 2007 On 6/25/07, Allen Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More to the point, I think, is that a standard is a good idea. That's why there's RFC 2822 , to spec dates in email. And ISO 8601, date format in RSS, amongst many other things. What YYYY-MM-DD fails to communicate is _where_ that date occurred. You need timezones. And sometimes country codes and daylight savings time flags. Such fun. And who's calendar is it, anyway? A.D. is a vague, hand-waving date somewhere around 4 B.C., after all. Until 1908, even Russia hadn't adopted the "Gregorian correction" to the calendar. In the Jewish calendar, it's 5768, the Islamic calendar it's 1428. Does anyone really know what time it is? I think we ought to just adopt stardates. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.6/865 - Release Date: 24/06/2007 08:33 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
