[uf-dev] Human and machine readable data format

[Michael MD]

> The idea is that the parsers read the lang attribute on the abbr and
> applies the correct language description. It will be a pain to build up
> all the international descriptions needed, but it's the only way if we
> wish to have human readable date's that can be parsed by machines.
>

and what do we do about people who write something like "25th January" when 
they really mean "25th January 2008" ?

I think we have opened a nasty can of worms here!

Some libraries for parsing dates will assume that it is this year.... which 
is VERY bad
... it should be rejected as being ambiguous.