On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 14:22:06 +0100 "E.Pasma" <pasma10 at concepts.nl> wrote:
> With respect to Igor's suggestion, yyyymmdd (as integer), why not leave out > the century? I prefer the oldfashoned yymmdd. And what about a planned Y3K bug? -:D (teasing) > The diagram got broken in my email and here is another try: > > Needs to be light | Needs to be | Needs to do | > (small footprint) | Human-Readable | calculations | > ----------------- | ---------------| ------------ | > YES | YES | NO | Integer as > | | | Igor's suggestion > | | | > YES | NO | YES | Float/Int > | | | Julianday > | | | > NO | YES | YES | Datetime/Numeric > | | | ISO Standard > Why ?NO? for ?Needs to do calculations? with Igor's suggestion? Well, depends on what is doing the calculation, may be. -- Yannick Duch?ne