xml-dev - RE: year

[Wayne Steele <xmlmaster@hotmail.com>]

When dating historical events, the Gregorian calendar is of limited use 
unless it was the contemporary calendar at the time.

Notice that this applies even in the twentieth century, with 'old-style' vs 
'new-style' dates for events in pre-bolshevik Russia.

I wonder if anyone knows of a good, serious methodology for representing 
antiquarian dates?



-Wayne Steele



>From: Michael Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net>
>To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
>CC: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: RE: year
>Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:55:59 -0800
>
>xsd:year is based on IS0 8601, which is Gregorian-centric, i.e., CCYY where
>CC = century, YY = year, > 1581.
>
>You can find a copy of 8601 at http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf.
>
>However: "To accommodate year values outside the range from 0001 to 9999,
>additional digits can be added to the left of this representation and a
>preceding "-" is allowed." (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#year, 
>then
>section 3.3.29.1)
>
>I hope Henry T. speaks up, if he is not already on holiday.
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:20 PM
>To: xml-dev
>Subject: xsd:year
>
>
>The xsd:year type in the W3C XML schema language represents a year
>such as 1999, 2000, or 2001. Three questions:
>
>1. Can it handle years in the first millenium  like 987? 234? 62? or
>6? Can I specify these with the minimum number of digits logically
>required? Or do I have to write 0987, 0062, and 0006?
>
>2. How is a year before 1. C.E. represented? For example how would I
>specify the year when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon? -49?
>
>3. What about years in the far future like 10000? 100000? 1000000?
>
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