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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box
 >> (For a delightfully complex case, ask any pre-20th century >> historian about Julian dates and computers and comparisons >> between dates in different countries and what that does to things like >> representations of original documents.) > Agreed. I was going to bring this up but saw you beat me to the punch. > The problem with date formats is that for normal every day usage there > is simply no unified standard across the world. Considering that XML is > supposed to be an international standard (Unicode and all) this is > something worth noting instead of assuming everyone uses your date > format of choice and it should be enforced on everyone else. There were arguments against the date types before and after the rec was released (myself included). At the time, I think the argument was that ISO 8601 was the only thing that claimed to be an international date standard (though most people understand international in this case = western). Is there a better date format that is widely used that would have been better? XML Schema could have created a whole new type-- but I think that would have garnered even more resistance. Regards, Jeff Rafter Defined Systems http://www.defined.net XML Development and Developer Web Hosting 
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