-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Andrew Berg escribió: > Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> It is ridiculously hard to come up with a robust time and date standard. > Why is that?
Well... just an example: some time ago, the Open Document Format standard was created. OpenOffice uses it, and it is an ISO standard. But Microsoft, instead of start using it, designed its own "Open Office XML" and managed to make it an ISO standard too. So if you want to make a text editor, you must chose which one you will use... or you can use your own format... or you can make it compatible with both formats (but converting files from one format to the other one can be very difficult). I figure you can find examples of the same problem with anything related to computers. By the way, China uses its own calendar, and I am not talking about computers... Best Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJIonC7AAoJEMV4f6PvczxAxRgH/370EZ6++HBvsPnpK8AsH1Mh ImFy3SqWkeEb3vZTzjKNMs8lYyzY41Brp/QaW/TG4m4S6P7+rbLQnR66PyWV4t5b cRw7Ceq1AckH672x9IG7hYJANC/nWy+gDVN9WJNQ+n8SfNsMgFyrt8n3Hq6I0GLE r+zuo0GxFY3MTbuaq2P2JXWrqhXipKDJSqsKsDBhyzH2Djdvi5CC7kPMAWWa4Y+Y nknGez1X3QaWqITYIfiZmwQ+nPpSqK4Vn1mHuBkcvJnyM6AU/uJmBtZjMl3mFTyX ym8QzYP506JDAqWDA8UnJRR9fZk4IyqEsgGszJJ1eJEwZOWt2pboyt1/KeECglE= =AVKm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users