On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Ernest Cline wrote:
From a practical viewpoint, being able to specify dates before
January 1, 1 BC (Gregorian) would allow for historical dates not
currently available to be specified in markup of documents concerning
history.
Such dates do not need to be published on the web in machine readable
readable formats. How often to do you need to book a flight, or add
an event to your calendar that far back in the past?
On a museum's Web site, you might want to search its database of
antiquities for those from the Mauryan Empire. In an online
encyclopedia, you might want to find people who were alive at the same
time as Alexander the Great. On a genealogy site, you might want to
publish the family tree of the leaders of the Han dynasty.
...The Y10K problem can also be pushed back by this, but is of only
theoretical importance.
There are still 7992 years before we need to have a Y10K solution
implemented. Thus we can safely leave it to to future generations to
solve.
...
Yeah yeah, that's what they said last time. ;-)
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
