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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Senior Software Developer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
