On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Saašha Metsärantala <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> not need anything so specific as >> location or country: it would only need >> something that says "north" or "south." > > I agree, with the addition that "winter in the north" and "summer in the > south" would need to be unambiguously placed at the beginning or the end of > the year. Jut to be clear, that's not what I'm advocating. My use case is periodical cover dates, and I really just want this as simple as possible: x:coverdate "2000-41" Bruce