[osis-core] date format

[Steven J. DeRose]

Possible problem with monthly/weekly/yearly is what calendar... Like, 
say, a book of readings for days of the Hebrew month. then again, 
we're kinda biased toward our date system anyway.

Would reducing the number of prefixes make sense, by having a 
'cyclic.' one, with sub-types following for the unit on which the 
dates cycle?

    cyclic.month.1

would locate a reading for the first day of each month?

Just a thought.

S

At 13:47 -0500 2004-11-02, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>Doing serious work on the date format section.
>
>Note that unlike the drafts of the users manual, the prefix for the 
>data format now uses a period '.' to avoid conflict with the work 
>prefix from a work element.
>
>Todd has requested, monthly.n (to show the day of the month), and 
>yearly.n (to show a day of the year).
>
>Note that the current yearly date format: yearly.yyyy.mm.ddThh.mm.ss
>
>can show:
>
>yearly.2004.12.25T06.06.07
>
>or
>
>yearly.12.25 (to show Christmas Day for every year)
>
>but does not have a mechanism to specify a date, such as the 300th 
>day of the year.
>
>Same lack noted for monthly.
>
>Would suggest something like:
>
>day.nnn and weekly.n (we already use yearly.
>
>Comments, suggestions?
>
>Hope everyone is having a great day!
>
>Patrick
>
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