My proposal's based on ISO 8601, as is stated in the introduction. It adds syntax for other aspects of how people like to tag dates.
Sticking to ISO 8601, we cannot be as *imprecise* as some OSMers (and historians and archaeologists) need. - L On 11 Nov 2010, at 01:00, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Thu, November 11, 2010 04:56, Laurence Penney wrote: >> I'm posting here a link to a proposal for date formatting that I just >> added to the start_date wiki page: > <snip> >> Comments welcome! Please follow up either here or on the Discussion page >> on the wiki. > > IMHO the right answer is ISO8601: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 > > It can be as precise as we need, from a year only, down to a fraction of a > second. <snip> _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
