RE: Time Intervals

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 11:01:42 EST


Mark,

Date calculations are much easier if you start on a March 1 date such as March 1 1900. This is becase the months are 31,30,31,30,31 31,30,31,30,31 31,xx Putting February last makes leap year calculations easier.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Davis [mailto:markdavis34@home.com]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:32 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: Re: Time Intervals

This appears to have bounced the first time I sent it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Davis" <markdavis34@home.com>
To: "Unicore" <unicore@unicode.org>; "Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 08:04
Subject: Time Intervals

> After a request from Tex, I realized that I hadn't posted my notes on the
> issues with ISO 8601 on this list. (More exactly, issues with a previous
> version of Schema, but since ISO 8601 is not well-defined, it wasn't
> either.)
>
> The page is at http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/timeIntervals.htm
>
> Mark
>
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> http://www.macchiato.com
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