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Dienstag Oktober 31, 2006

More from IBM's Rob Weir on ECMA Office Open XML
"By mandating the perpetuation of this bug, we're asking for trouble. Date libraries in modern programming languages like C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby will all calculate dates correctly according to the Gregorian Calendar. So any interpretation of dates in OOXML files in these languages will be off by one day unless the author of the software adds their own workaround to their code to account for Excel's bug. Certainly some will make the "correction" properly, at their own expense. But many will not, perhaps because they did not see it deep within the 6,000 page specification."

... and this one:

"But we need to keep in mind that there is a difference between a specification and a standard. A specification tells the plain facts of what a particular technology does without comment as to whether it is good or bad. I could drop a box of toothpicks on my desk and write up a detailed specification on how they landed. An open standard, on the other hand, goes beyond mere specification, and promotes a preferred way of achieving cross-vendor and cross-application interoperability."

Found here and here.
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