Re: ISO 8601 anyone??

[Eduardo Gutentag <Eduardo.Gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

Ian Galpin wrote:
> 
> Re:  <http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-core/200104/maillist.html>
> Re:  <http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-core/200104/msg00131.html>
> 
> [2001-04-15]
> 
> > Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:10:31
> 
> > 03/19/2001
> 
> > 16 Apr
> 
> > Apr 01
> 
> May I ask a question? Why are we all using different date formats like
> D-M-Y and M-D-Y  when XML in general specifies only  Year-Month-Day

That's an interesting assertion. Could you please send a pointer to where
XML specifies such a thing? Or are you perhaps referring to a TLW other
than XML?

Thanks

Eduardo

> (preferably also only with a four digit year, post-2000) as in the ISO 8601
> standard?
> 
> Can we resolve to adopt this as a way of working on this email list?
> 
> The US adopted ISO 8601 years ago. It's in ANSI X3.30 and NIST FIPS 4-1. The
> whole of Europe and Scandinavia know it as EN 28601. Most of the rest of the
> world also adopted it, under loads of other different standards reference
> numbers.
> 
> Just about every operating system on the planet allows you to set your
> computer to work this way.
> 
> A partial list of countries adopting ISO 8601 and the standards reference
> number in each one, can be found at:  <http://www.qsl.net/g1smd/isoimp.htm>.
> 
> I'm still wading through the specifications to see what data types do not
> conform to existing ISO standards already in use elsewhere, such as those
> suggested by ISO 3166, ISO 4217, ISO 8601 and so on.
> 
> More stuff on ISO 8601 than is healthy for you:
>   <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html>
>   <http://www.cv.nrao.edu/y2k/>
>   <http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm>
>   <http://www.qsl.net/g1smd/isoimp.htm>
>   <http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/>
>   <http://www.metric1.org/>
>   <http://www.kok.com/pr03.htm>
>   <http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/iso8601.html>
>   <http://www.ucs.co.za/uc/webtest/y2000.htm>
>   <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime>
>   <http://serendipity.magnet.ch/hermetic/cal_stud/newman.htm>
> 
> Although not in XML, even NASA has started to adopt the Year-Month-Day date
> format within much of their data. See the Web Sites at:
> <http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov.>,  <http://sohowww.nascom/nasa.gov/>, and:
> <http://www.sel.noaa.gov/> for example.
> 
> That's my input for the moment.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ian.
> 
> <g1smd@freeuk.com>
> 
> [2001-04-15]
> 
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