Re: [VCARDDAV] Comment on vcardrev-11 DATE

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:08 UTC

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On 2010-05-29 20:33, Markus Lorenz wrote:
> But I was confused about the second example. I didn't understand why
> there was a dash between year and month, because in all other cases the
> year is immediately followed by the month. From my rule it should have
> been "198504-" or "198504".
>
> Finally the English Wikipedia article
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601) told me the reason for this. The
> format YYYYMM could be misinterpreted by YYMMDD which was allowed in ISO
> 8601-2000.
>
>> From my point of view mentioning this in the specification could be
> reasonable to avoid confusion for developers who don't have access to
> the ISO standard.

Agreed. There will be an explanatory note in the next revision.

Simon
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