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. _______________________________________________ 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.
