On 6 Oct 09, at 5:31 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
...your expectations may be different then everyone elses. by
requiring
that the dates be explicit there is no ambiguity, you are in control
of
the behavior.
The power of some of the other formulas in ISO 8601 is that you don't
introduce false levels of precision. The "October 2009" issue of a
magazine is precisely tagged as "200910" or "2009-10" . It doesn't
have a day, hour or minute. Most books come with a copyright year: no
month, no day ...
In the library/book/periodical world these are a common set of
expectations.
Walter
