[Historic] The "time" of time

[Jeff Meyer]

Mikel's spherical Mercator thread triggered another question for me - if we
were to add the concept of time to any map-/geo-related objects, how would
we express that time?

Does anyone have a recommendation for this?

ISO-8601 is often referenced (and maligned) as the relevant standard,
begging the questions:
- Which ISO-8601?
- How to handle BC / negative years?
- Why use such an odd convention (YYYY-MMM-DD... big Endian?)?

I believe the OpenLayer guys have run into some interesting challenges
working with this format.

- Jeff

https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/413

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Jeff Meyer
Global World History Atlas
www.gwhat.org
jeff at gwhat.org
206-676-2347
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