[LEAPSECS] Bulletin C and all that

[G Ashton]

ISO 8601 is the normative definition for date or time representations THAT
CLAIM CONFORMANCE TO ISO 8601. I don't believe the standard was written with
a goal of being a general reference work on time and date notation in
general. So, for example, I wouldn't take their choice of midnight to divide
days as a statement that everyone who used the Gregorian calendar since 1582
has also divided the day at midnight.

Gerard Ashton

-----Original Message-----
From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:phk at phk.freebsd.dk] 
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 02:04
To: Leap Second Discussion List; G Ashton
Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Bulletin C and all that

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In message <000201d03914$d18751e0$7495f5a0$@comcast.net>, "G Ashton" writes:
>Brooks Harris suggested ISO 8601:2004(E), 3.2.1 "The Gregorian 
>calendar" as a source about the Gregorian calendar. Thanks for the 
>suggestion, but I consider ISO 8601 to be garbage; it's so bad it makes 
>me dislike the entire organization.

Fortunately your personal tastes or distastes have little impact on what is
the normative definition.  Like it or not, 8601 it is.

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