"Infoman Inc." wrote on 1999-01-28 14:46 UTC:
I am a Canadian participant in ISO TC154 standardization work with respect to ISO 8601 Representation of Dates and Times as well as ...
Ah, good. Is there a newer draft of ISO 8601 available than the one on <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/8601v04.pdf> that Louis Visser has sent me exactly a year ago? The draft that I have still says (and did over many revisions) in awkwardly long-winded language that NOTE: To be precise, it should be mentioned that the naming and numbering of the days of the week correspond with assigning to the date of 2000-01-01 the name Wednesday. This will cause a major disruption of our calendar system, because >90% of all computers in operation still believe that my 29th birthday will be a Saturday and not a Wednesday ... ;-) Unnecessary to say that ISO 8601:1999 still needs a lot of proof-reading.
Can any of you help me out on this? Have some ideas? Are any of you aware of "standardised" approaches/implementations for date/time stamping services currently in existence that can/should serve as input into the development of an international standard?, etc.
My accumulated, condensed, and distilled knowledge on this topic is embedded in http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html where you will also find numerous pointers to relevant literature. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>