On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Reviewing the EDTF draft, I just noticed the distinction between
> uncertain
> > and approximate dates. Unfortunately, this got mixed up a bit in CSL 1.0
> (we
> > have an is-uncertain-date conditional, but the spec gives an example of
> its
> > use for an approximate date). We could introduce an additional
> > is-approximate-date conditional, if desired.
>
> To be honest, I don't really understand the practical difference
> between the two, or how we would represent them, beyond "c.2000".
>

http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/spec.html includes definitions of the
two. Anyway, it's not a big problem, but ideally we should have used
is-approximate-date instead of is-uncertain-date.

Rintze
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