In message <caaf25cf-1fbe-494c-8361-e6811b6c5...@googlemail.com>,
Geoffrey Sneddon <foolist...@googlemail.com> writes
Ultimately, why is the Gregorian calendar good enough for the ISO but
not us? I'm sure plenty of arguments were made to the ISO before
ISO8601 was published, yet that still supports only the Gregorian
calendar, having been revised twice since it's original publication in
1988. Is there really any need to go beyond what ISO 8601 supports?
What were the use-case(s) for ISO8601? If merely the exchange of
calendar information, it's unlikely that it took account of the
pre-Gregorian/ BCE/ imprecise situations under consideration here.
--
Andy Mabbett
