Re: date formats

[Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski@valinux.com>]

Stein Gjoen wrote:
> 
> Sandy Harris wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
> 
> [a number of good points snipped...]
> 
> Since SGML is supposed to help authors follow a strict grammar, why not
> use it to the fullest here? How about something like this:
> <date>
>  <year>2000</year>
>  <month>12</month>
>  <date>11</date>
> </date>
> 
[..]
> If you are used to SGML the added verbosity should not be a problem.
> This then also simplifies date reformatting into style used in other
> countries.
> 

I've been lurking only because there hasn't been any really good ideas yet.

Till now.

I like this.

-Mark

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