The problem is is that <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">20120101 is ambiguous -- it could be either the year </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">20120101, or the 1st of January of last year.</span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Whereas admittedly it is more likely to be the latter, it might be considered a bit too much magic to guess </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">20000101 as the first of January of 2000 and 20000000 as &quot;in 20 Mio years&quot;.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ISO8601 states that the notation without hypen separators should be avoided. Therefor, if there is no strong opposition to it, I would put a low priority on this kind of magic.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(On the other hand, if you make a patch that deals with this ambiguity magically, I would merge it)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(By the way, when importing the data through the API the magic of the parser would not happen -- i.e. it would require you to write it down in exactly the kind of format we specify  The magic parser is only there to support humans, not machines).</font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/3 Dennis Tobar <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dennis.tobar@gmail.com" target="_blank">dennis.tobar@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div><div>I&#39;m testing the timestamp format and I note that doesn&#39;t support date in ISO basic format (ISO 8601), as is documented in MS SQL Server pages:  yyyymmdd[1][2] (yes, without separator string).</div>


<div><br></div><div>The expected value to 20120101 is Jan 1, 2012, but the script returns this json</div></div><div><pre style>{
  &quot;time&quot;: &quot;+00020120101-01-01T00:00:00Z&quot;,
  &quot;precision&quot;: 9,
  &quot;before&quot;: 0,
  &quot;after&quot;: 0,
  &quot;utcoffset&quot;: &quot;+00:00&quot;,
  &quot;calendar&quot;: &quot;<a href="http://wikidata.org/id/Q1985727" target="_blank">http://wikidata.org/id/Q1985727</a>&quot;
}</pre></div><div>This is my little feedback, thinking about importing some data from sqlserver to any repository.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226054(v=sql.80).aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226054(v=sql.80).aspx</a></div>


<div>[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Calendar_dates" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Calendar_dates</a></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Denny Vrandečić <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de" target="_blank">denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi all,<div><br></div><div>continuing from last weeks data values discussion, I would like to invite comments on the following prototypes for understanding points of time and points on Earth.</div><div><br></div><div>&lt;<a href="http://simia.net/valueparser/time.html" target="_blank">http://simia.net/valueparser/time.html</a>&gt;</div>



<div><br></div><div>&lt;<a href="http://simia.net/valueparser/coordinate.html" target="_blank">http://simia.net/valueparser/coordinate.html</a>&gt;</div><div><br></div><div>What it currently does not do is:</div><div>* i18n (it&#39;s in the code, but not properly exposed yet)</div>



<div>* enable dates like &quot;Date of birth: 437-436 BC&quot;</div><div><br></div><div>Working on both still, but I&#39;d like to have a first round of feedback.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy 2013,</div><div>Denny</div>


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