On 21/09/2007, Jonathan Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Stubbs wrote > > Leaving the units off is quite a bit like not bothering with the first > > 2 digits of the year for whatever reason. > It's more like not stating that the year is in the Gregorian calendar > every time you write one. Yes, if someone comes along and uses a Julian > year things are going to get confused, and people from cultures that use > neither calendar need to do some conversion, but most of the time > assuming a default works fine.
Or maybe it's more like always specifying your timezone? That's pretty standard even if you're taking the add a Z approach. I think that pretty much wraps up the lesson on why analogies usually suck so much. Good. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
