daniel added a comment. @Jc3s5h Please calm down. Documentation is often outdated or inconsistent or unclear. We can work to improve it, but it will never be perfect. But that is not the issue here, since I did mean ISO - well, technically, I mean xsd:datetime. I did not mean "iso-ish string maybe using some other calendar".
We would use an xsd date (ISO) for the *normalized* value, for indexing and comparison. Internally, the value would be stored in a calendar specific way - for gregorian and julian, in something that uses a similar syntax as ISO. That "original" value would also be visible in JSON output, along with the normalized form (currently, the normalized form is not there yet). In RDF, it's still unclear whether we'll include the original value at all, or only use the normalized form. The same kind of normalization would be applied to make sure that all values of the "length" property will be comparable by converting them all to meters (while still making the original value available in rdf). You would have two values associated with the statement, one "original" (in miles or whatever), one "normalized" (in meter). TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117031 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: daniel Cc: Jc3s5h, aude, daniel, Aklapper, Smalyshev, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, Deskana, Manybubbles _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
