Talk:ISO 8601
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Some people have proposed using ISO 8601 for wikipedia dates. For more of this discussion, see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
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[edit] BC
BC dates are handled in ISO 8601 with a minus symbol. Beware that before AD 1 (0001) there is, BC 1 which is 0000, so BC 2 is -0001 and so on. I found a draft copy of the standrd at http://www.ray-connolly.fsnet.co.uk/ISO8601-2000_Draft-20001215_ISO-TC154-N362_Final.PDF (anon)
[edit] Y10K
- The Long Now foundation suggests that years should be written with five digits (ie 02003 for the year 2003) in order to avoid the Year 10,000 problem.
This is pointless: all it does is push the problem forward a few years to 100,000, and situation already exists for dates in the past (-10,000 and earlier.) May as well accept that the year number can have a varying number of digits -( 18:57 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- RFC2550: Y10K and beyond — RFC document published as an April Fools joke in 1999; still it contains many potentially useful ideas.
Without seeing that I assumed they were serious! Brianjd
[edit] BCE and divs
The class should apply equally well to divs. As we are not presenting tabular data, it is advisable to use divs.
Either BC or BCE (and AD or CE) should be used, but not both. I favor CE, if only because it's not Latin, and not religious. (Ideally, time shouldn't be religious, but we are talking about the Gregorian calendar.) However, I don't really care, just as long as we're not using both. It was by carelessness that I added BCE instead of BC—I was focusing on clear prose, so I ignored a distracting debate. (Careless, as in without worry, not haphazardly.) —Daelin @ 2006–01–08 16:21Z
[edit] what about the kk:mm:ss
I have seen the kk:mm:ss format being used in various places. I cannot seem to find anything on Wikipedia on this format. Does anyone have some information about this format ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.164.179.47 (talk) 15:53, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
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- ISO 8601:2004 does not use "kk:mm:ss", which is why it is not mentioned in this article. It appears that "kk" may indicate hours in the range 01-24, in Java (programming language)'s SimpleDateFormat class. Such level of detail in a specific context (Java) is probably beyond the scope of most Wikipedia articles. Mitch Ames (talk) 05:35, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
