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Tuesday April 01, 2003
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A note for date/time module implementors
When dealing with some parts of the French administration, dates
with months > 12 and/or days > 31 are actually allowed. They're
conventional to indicate the birthdate of people whose actual
birthdate is unknown. And they defeat most code that deals with dates.
(I don't know if the same convention is
actually used in other countries.)
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Aaaaaargh (Score:1)
I am actually convinced that ISO 8601 is the source of HP Lovecraft's necronomicon.
-Dom
random numbers (Score:1)
---ict / Spoon
Re:random numbers (Score:2)
Anecdote (Score:2)
I have a friend who ended up with a birth date a year and a half from his real date: he comes from Iran, and applied for political refugee status in France. The people who gave him his papers messed up the year conversion between the Muslim and the Georgian calendar (they used the difference for the wrong part of the year) so he first aged a whole year. Later they refused to accept his birth certificate as valid, so they moved his birth date to January 0th of that (wrong!) year...
mirod
Re:Anecdote (Score:2)
Were that I say, pancakes?