I have reviewed the comments on the extension to 6!:0 (A). http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Timestamp_Extension The comments that are not based on outright errors fall into two main categories:
0. Extension A is not B or C or ... (e.g. dyadic time format) 1. Criticisms on the details of A. The answer to comments in the first category is that extension A does not preclude B or C or ... The most substantive of the criticisms in the second category is that extension A does not permit AM/PM. There are ways to accommodate that (e.g. NN nn in the format string to produce AM am in the result, with the hour now from 01 to 12), but perhaps not. (So what happens if not, and you want to have AM/PM? You'd have to use something other than extension A.) Other criticisms in the second category are either frivolous (e.g. can not use YYY to get the last 3 digits of the year) or too powerful (e.g. can not accommodate Chinese or Japanese AM/PM), too powerful in the sense that if consistently applied would have precluded or drastically changed vast swaths of the existing system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
