[Ietf-calsify] B.C.E and Y10K problem with iCalendar?

[Petr Tomasek]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:21:48PM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote:
> ...
>
> 9990).  I am concerned that making a change to the date format would 
> cause massive interoperability problems, requiring a version bump, which 
> itself would cause problems.

Well, I didn't want to say, You must change the standard immediately ;).

I'm just trying to find a solution that could be adopted in
some future (major?) version of the standard.

Beside, bounding the date/time format to the CALSCALE
property would seem to me the right way that would IMHO not
cause compatibility probles and would make the standard
more clean/extensible for the future.

> However, if you believe there is a need 
> for such a calendar, perhaps it would be worth investigating an 
> experimental version.

Do You mean investigating how would the change affect existing
implementations?

> And so on a related topic, I believe we should make it clear to 
> implementors that they ignore VERSION at their peril.
> 
> Warmest regards,
> 
> Eliot

Best regards,
Petr Tomasek

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