Dear list, while the way CSL handles date information works really well, e.g. for partial dates, I would like to understand why ISO 8601 (the datetime standard) wasn’t choosen for this. ISO 8601 handles both partial dates, e.g. „2006“ or „2006-11“ and date ranges, e.g. „2006-11-01/2006-11-15“, the only limitation are cases such as quarters, etc.
I admit that the reason I bring this up is edge cases currently not reflected in citation styles (e.g. including hours and minutes), but handling of dates in ISO 8601 format also seems to be easier, given the wide support in languages and frameworks. Is it mostly „why change something that works now“, or are there are other arguments that I have missed. Happy to read up earlier messages on this topic if you provide a link. Best, Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list xbiblio-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
