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Nils Dagsson Moskopp nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net
Thu Mar 12 12:59:04 PDT 2009


Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2009, 17:37 -0400 schrieb Aryeh Gregor: 
> A much saner solution seems to be to say that HTML supports exactly
> one type of calendar: in this case, proleptic Gregorian.  Authoring
> tools can be used to convert from other formats to Gregorian.  This is
> the approach already taken by every computing standard I can think of.
>  One fixed format is used for transmission (usually either proleptic
> Gregorian or Unix time).  HTTP is one example of a widely-used format
> that does this already.

Now that we have formally established that, what exactly prevents us
from going the ISO 8601 route (maybe with a "recommended subset") ?

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Nils Dagsson Moskopp
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