xml-dev - Re: xsd:year (and my question)

[Miloslav Nic <nicmila@idoox.com>]

Standard says:
year is the set of Gregorian calendar years as defined in ISO 8601:

ISO 8601 permits both full and truncatd syntax:

http://zvon.org/other/datesAndTimes/OUTPUT/index.html


Will it be possible to use whole ISO 8601 in the final recommendation or
only a subset of the ISO 8601?


Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> 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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