[advocacy] public domain date tag?

[Peter Harris]

Daniel James wrote:
>  Is there a standard for dates with days and 
> months in Vorbis tags

Yes; ISO 8601. You can find a quick summary here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

>, eg
> 
> comment[0]="PUBLICDOMAIN=04022010";

There was no 10th day of the 20th month. Not even in the year 402. :-)

> or
>  
> comment[0]="PUBLICDOMAIN=02042010";

There was no 10th day of the 20th month. Not even in the year 204. :-)

> Or could we just do:
> 
> comment[0]="PUBLICDOMAIN=2010";
> 
> and assume 1st January?

Yes, there will be a year 2010. This is the only example you gave that 
meets ISO 8601. YYYY-MM-DD should have been used for your other examples.

Peter Harris

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