In message <619d9f095a7941eebcbb05fd4b03f...@pirate>, WeBMartians
<[email protected]> writes
Although it can be argued that a standard should not consider the work
required for implementation, many of the trade-offs in reference to
times and dates do indeed take the present state of code into
consideration.
What's the expected end-of-life date for HTML5? Do we really want to
hamstring ourselves 'til then, by considering only current, as-of-2009,
capabilities?
One reason for not supporting BCE is a disagreement between historians
and, say, astronomers, on how to represent the year immediately
preceding year one. Is it year -1 (1 BCE) or year zero?
ISO 8601 is, I understand, unequivocal on that matter.
[...]
I do see the "no BCE" compromise as a workable one.
That's an interesting use of "compromise"!
--
Andy Mabbett
