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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: RFE: Date Format
Hi There! > Wouldn't that be a role of date? Role as in an attribute "role"? Possibly.... > There are several problems with calendars in general (sorry, prior life > as a data analyst dealing with time and dates). <snip> 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. > generalized. Defaults could be "CE" and "Gregorian", and stylesheets > could translate formats into appropriate display formats. Agreed, though I don't like this CE term :-) > The other straighforward alternative is that dates in DocBook be assumed > to be Gregorian, CE, with other variants simply expressed as literals in > text. Yes, but that doesn't avoid the 1/4/2000 problem. I interpret that as The first of April in the Year 2000 AD whereas Americans might interpret that as the Fourth of January 2000 AD.... DL -- You're too late...
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