I thought I lost that discussion....? =D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxhNWYTUiQQ

John

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Daniel Kinzler
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> Am 01.07.2015 um 20:08 schrieb John Erling Blad:
>> Wouldn't it be better to use iso8601 as internal format?
>
> In a relational database schema or a triple store, yes. In the primary JSON
> blobs, no - there we generally want to store data as entered by the user: if 
> the
> user entered a length in feet, we store feet, and if they entered a date in
> Julian, we store Julian. Attempting to handle dates different in this regard 
> was
> one source of confusion that led to the current mess (think diffs, for 
> example).
>
>
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