[Historic] Temporal Tagging - old names

[Sean Gillies]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 04:08 PM, Tim Alder wrote:
>>
>> As standard for time we should reference at ISO 8601, so if people know it
>> exactly they would be able to use YYYY-MM-DD instead of YYYY.
>
>
> The Internet Standard is IETF RFC 3339,
> "Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps",
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt
>
> An example of their format is 1985-04-12T23:20:50.52Z
> which contains colons and hyphens. So the rest
> of our syntax should perhaps not use colon or
> hyphens as a separator between dates.
>
>
> --
>   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

This discussion reminds me that a genealogy programmer I know has a
proposal for some fuzzy and historical date extensions to the Chronic
(Ruby) date parser:

https://github.com/mojombo/chronic/issues/169

Includes calendar "locales", partial dates, and more.

-- 
Sean Gillies