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Re: Proposal to move long year to level 2

From:

Saašha Metsärantala <[log in to unmask]>

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Discussion of the Developing Date/Time Standards <[log in to unmask]>

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Wed, 7 Sep 2011 07:41:34 +0200

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Hello!

> years more than four digits
I consider that those are useful. EDTF is not thought to be used only for 
publishing dates, but for dates within (or even outside of) Library and 
Information Sciences in a wider perspective. Years above 9999 may be used 
in both fiction and astronomy, for example. Years below -9999 are not 
uncommon within archaeology or paleontology among other specialities.

> I propose to move feature 104 to level 2,
As of today, level two is the most populated level. It seems that there is 
a risk for an EDTF with only two levels (level zero and level two) soon. 
One possibility would of course be to move the whole level two to level one 
and skip the concept of "level two" in whole, but I would prefer something 
else: To achieve a better balance, we should consider moving some features 
from level two to level one. In other words: If we move long years to 
level two, we should also move one or two features from level two to level 
one.

> to remove feature 208.
Possibly, but in this case, we should clarify the syntax for what 
would have been written as longYearScientific. For example, should

y18e6

be rewritten to longYearSimple as

18000000~

or

18xxxxxx

or

18000000

or

18uuuuuu

or a combination of these, such as

180uuxxx~

or something else? The last one may be quite good semantically, but for 
simplicity, I would suggest to choose the first one, namely:

18000000~

Anyway, I think that this should be made clear to avoid confusion and 
misunderstandings.

Regards!

SaaĊĦha,

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