My comments on DR 10-0001

[Jesper Lund Stocholm]

Hi Murata-san,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) [mailto:eb2m-mrt at asahi-net.or.jp]
> Sent: 8. april 2010 02:49
> To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> Subject: Re: My comments on DR 10-0001
> 
> I am afraid that I do not understand this thread very well.
> 
> Does @dateCompatibility control the conversion from ISO 8601 dates
> to serial dates at run time?  In other words,  does this attribute
> change the result of adding 1 to "1900-02-28"?

Yes, it puts all serial runtime date values after 1900-02-28 off with 1.

>   Or, does  this
> attribute merely allow or disallow "1900-02-29" in strict documents
> without affecting computations?  Or, both?

I don't see how the date 1900-02-29 is allowed at all in S spreadsheets.
As Jirka pointed out, it conflicts with ISO-8601 and (by extension) also
xsd:datetime .



Jesper Lund Stocholm
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