On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/23/2013 04:08 PM, Tim Alder wrote: >> >> As standard for time we should reference at ISO 8601, so if people know it >> exactly they would be able to use YYYY-MM-DD instead of YYYY. > > > The Internet Standard is IETF RFC 3339, > "Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps", > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt > > An example of their format is 1985-04-12T23:20:50.52Z > which contains colons and hyphens. So the rest > of our syntax should perhaps not use colon or > hyphens as a separator between dates. > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
This discussion reminds me that a genealogy programmer I know has a proposal for some fuzzy and historical date extensions to the Chronic (Ruby) date parser: https://github.com/mojombo/chronic/issues/169 Includes calendar "locales", partial dates, and more. -- Sean Gillies _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
