[osis-core] date format

[Todd Tillinghast]

Steve,

Sounds like a really good idea to me.

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-bounces at crosswire.org [mailto:osis-core-
> bounces at crosswire.org] On Behalf Of Steven J. DeRose
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:18 PM
> To: osis-core at crosswire.org; osis-core at bibletechnologieswg.org
> Cc: Todd Tillinghast
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] date format
> 
> 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
> >
> >--
> >Patrick Durusau
> >Director of Research and Development
> >Society of Biblical Literature
> >Patrick.Durusau at sbl-site.org
> >Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
> >Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
> >
> >Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
> >
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