Re: [Ltru] Re: "Placeholder" dates in draft Regsitry (was: Re: Progress)

Would such a placeholder as 6666-06-06, 7777-07-07 or 1111-11-11  
break such systems, Stephane?:-)

A quick google for 2008-01-01 finds ten whole pages <http:// 
www.google.ie/search?as_q=&hl=ga&num=10&btnG=Cuardach 
+Google&as_epq=2008-01-01&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr= 
all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=> of events scheduled to happen  
on 2008-01-01, should we live so long.

If you believe that it is not a problem for LTRU to declare  
2008-01-01 a "fictitious" date for its own purposes, then I respect  
your right to hold to that as a matter of principle I do not  
understand, but I do not think that particular choice to be  
intrinsically important and I do believe that a less ambiguous (more  
obvious) placeholder would be less confusing (more help) to human  
readers reviewing the text.
mg

On 14 Feb 2007, at 13:06, scríobh Stephane Bortzmeyer:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:25:24AM -0800,
>  Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net> wrote
>  a message of 27 lines which said:
>
>> Does anyone else feel this would help?
>>
>
> -1
>
> It would break type checking systems (SQL database with CONSTRAINTS,
> XML with schemas, etc).

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Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991)
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Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire.
* mgunn@egt.ie * eamonn@egt.ie *

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