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Subject:

"User input" (was dual representations)

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Gerard Ashton <[log in to unmask]>

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

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Considering all the subtle problems we have been discussing, I would 
think that some people will want to take advantage of the format as a 
way to originally record information on paper with a pen, or in a simple 
computer program such as Wordpad or EMACS. This might be particularly 
helpful for people in a multi-cultural environment where subtle 
distinctions of spelled-out words like "weekdays" might be 
misinterpreted. So I think the format should, as much as possible, be 
suitable for direct human use with no computer intermediary. Certainly 
some aspects of ISO 8601 are used in this way (or maybe ISO 8601 adopted 
what some people were already handwriting, I don't know).

It follows that some expressions will be regarded as wrong when read by 
humans, and the people will contact the author to determine the correct 
value. The date-time 2011-01-19T25:29Z is likely to generate a phone 
call if it was written by a person, no matter what the spec says, just 
as Friday, January 20, 2011 would. So one wonders whether values should 
be allowed that would be rejected if read directly rather than through a 
software intermediary.

Gerry Ashton

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