> From: Syd Bauman
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 5:38 PM
> If "?" and "~" "apply . to the entire portion of the string to their
> left, unless immediately preceded by parenthesis" then the example at
> #302 is incorrect; it should be "2004(-06)?"
Actually, no (though I can understand the confusion); ISO 8601 considers
'2006-06' to be the representation of a month so strictly speaking
'2006-06?' would be "questionable month".
'2004(-06)?' would be "year known, questionable month within year" I've
added this example (number 3021) hopefully to provide additional clarity.
> or perhaps "2004-(06)?".
Good point, I'm not sure which is better and we should figure this out.
> Both #302 and #304 should use hyphen separators to make it clear
> whether the separator should be inside or outside the parentheses.
> (They should also include an example without separators iff you decide
> to keep #201 and #202, dates without hyphens and times without colons,
> which as I said in a previous post, I think is a bad idea.)
I agree that we need to work towards resolution of this issue.
--Ray
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