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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: RFE: Date Format
--tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:00:36AM +1030, David Lloyd (lloy0076@rebel.net.a= u) wrote: >=20 > Hi There! >=20 > > Wouldn't that be a role of date? >=20 > Role as in an attribute "role"? Possibly.... >=20 > > There are several problems with calendars in general (sorry, prior life > > as a data analyst dealing with time and dates). >=20 > <snip> >=20 > That is all very interesting but it doesn't solve the original problem. > The original problem was that noone could work out what 1/4/2000 (for > example) means...if you pass the problem to a localised stylesheet then > you can help avoid the cultural differences. Actually, it does address the problem if: - Calendar and era are defined. - Localizations are defined. - Rules for applying localizations to calendar and era to produce display formats are defined. > > generalized. Defaults could be "CE" and "Gregorian", and stylesheets > > could translate formats into appropriate display formats. >=20 > Agreed, though I don't like this CE term :-) There are apparently some folks out there who object to Anno Domini, for what might be called religious reasons. --=20 Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6WPqeOEeIn1XyubARApmOAJoDFGCl0YVyV2+9FGsT9OKiWS+p4ACfXPqN odptdP78ASS0Hq2Ot12tQio= =eBHc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw--
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