Am 01.07.2015 um 20:08 schrieb John Erling Blad:
Wouldn't it be better to use iso8601 as internal
format?
In a relational database schema or a triple store, yes. In the primary JSON
blobs, no - there we generally want to store data as entered by the user: if the
user entered a length in feet, we store feet, and if they entered a date in
Julian, we store Julian. Attempting to handle dates different in this regard was
one source of confusion that led to the current mess (think diffs, for example).
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
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