https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29530
--- Comment #13 from Markus Szumovski <[email protected]> 2011-07-04 07:49:35 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12) > re: date standardization. > > Don't such things already exist - [[w:ISO 8601]] for an unambiguous way of > writing dates - Microformats (or Microdata/whatever fad it is today) for > embedding dates in html, or if really set on a pure xml format - rdf. All that is defined by these standards is a possible way of writing down date information. ISO for example doesn't tell the software anything about the calendar in use or even that it's a date at all, even if that's a logical thing for human eyes. Microformats like hCalendar are very limited in it's possibilities and use html. The thing about the "Open Date Standard" is, that it will be able to describe any calender with microseconds being the only universal unit. If there is a calender out there that doesn't have days, or it's days are of different length (imagine a calendar for Mars with a 25 hour day), than it still wouldn't be a problem. The "Open Date Standard" doesn't only define how to write down a date and tell the software which kind of calendar to use, the most important thing about it will be the ability to define calendars in xml and the posibility to convert a date from one calendar to another, simply by reading in the xml definition of the two calendars. So, as a user, you don't have to think about different calendars any more. Even as a programmer of a "Open Date Standard" library you don't have to think about the definitions. As long as you implement the standard correctly, the XML definition of calendars will cover the complex part of calendar convertion, date displaying and date reading. Hell, it shouldn't even be a problem of implementing the mayan calendar... as long as it's done before 21 December 2012 of course ;) greetings Markus -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
