[Historic] The "time" of time

[Aaron Straup Cope]

Well, there are "spacetime IDs" although they have some privacy issues:

https://spacetimeid.appspot.com/

On 8/24/12 12:28 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote:
> 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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